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The impact of delays to admission from the emergency department on inpatient outcomes

BACKGROUND: We sought to determine the impact of delays to admission from the Emergency Department (ED) on inpatient length of stay (LOS), and IP cost. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 13,460 adult (≥ 18 yrs) ED visits between April 1 2006 and March 30 2007 at a tertiary care teachi...

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Autores principales: Huang, Qing, Thind, Amardeep, Dreyer, Jonathan F, Zaric, Gregory S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20618934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-10-16