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Demand for emergency health service: factors associated with inappropriate use

BACKGROUND: The inappropriate use of emergency room (ER) service by patients with non-urgent health problems is a worldwide problem. Inappropriate ER use makes it difficult to guarantee access for real emergency cases, decreases readiness for care, produces negative spillover effects on the quality...

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Autores principales: Carret, Maria LV, Fassa, Anaclaudia G, Kawachi, Ichiro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2034385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-131