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The reconfiguration of triage by introduction of technology. / Jentsch, Marc; Ramirez, Leonardo; Wood, Lisa et al.
MobileHCI '13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York: ACM, 2013. p. 55-64.

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Jentsch, M, Ramirez, L, Wood, L & Elmasllari, E 2013, The reconfiguration of triage by introduction of technology. in MobileHCI '13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, New York, pp. 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493190.2493212

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Jentsch, M., Ramirez, L., Wood, L., & Elmasllari, E. (2013). The reconfiguration of triage by introduction of technology. In MobileHCI '13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services (pp. 55-64). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493190.2493212

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Jentsch M, Ramirez L, Wood L, Elmasllari E. The reconfiguration of triage by introduction of technology. In MobileHCI '13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York: ACM. 2013. p. 55-64 doi: 10.1145/2493190.2493212

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Jentsch, Marc ; Ramirez, Leonardo ; Wood, Lisa et al. / The reconfiguration of triage by introduction of technology. MobileHCI '13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. New York : ACM, 2013. pp. 55-64

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