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Planning for surge of disaster victims? Discharge the healthiest from every hospital, experts advise
12-06-2006 · EurekAlert!A nationwide blue-ribbon panel of health care experts recommends that hospital plans for a surge of disaster victims should begin with a strategy to empty their beds of relatively healthier patients.
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