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The effects of publishing emergency department wait time on patient utilization patterns in a community with two emergency department sites: a retrospective, quasi-experiment design

BACKGROUND: Providing emergency department (ED) wait time information to the public has been suggested as a mechanism to reduce lengthy ED wait times (by enabling patients to select the ED site with shorter wait time), but the effects of such a program have not been evaluated. We evaluated the effec...

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Autores principales: Xie, Bin, Youash, Sabrina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21672236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-29