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Takenori Inomata, Ju Mizuno, Masao Iwagami, Shiori Kawasaki, Akie Shimada, Eiichi Inada, Tina Shiang, Atsushi Amano
The impact of Joint Commission International accreditation on time periods in the operating room: A retrospective observational study
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