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Correspondence
Measuring the true impact of an electronic physiological surveillance system (EPSS)
  1. Dominick Shaw1,
  2. John Blakey2,
  3. Jamie Rylance3
  1. 1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  2. 2 Clinical Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
  3. 3 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dominick Shaw, Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Edwards Lane, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; dominic.shaw{at}nottingham.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003804

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    • Contributors All authors contributed equally to the design and composition of the manuscript.

    • Funding None.

    • Competing interests None.

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