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Who uses emergency departments inappropriately and when - a national cross-sectional study using a monitoring data system

BACKGROUND: Increasing pressures on emergency departments (ED) are straining services and creating inefficiencies in service delivery worldwide. A potentially avoidable pressure is inappropriate attendances (IA); typically low urgency, self-referred patients better managed by other services. This st...

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Autores principales: McHale, Philip, Wood, Sara, Hughes, Karen, Bellis, Mark A, Demnitz, Ulf, Wyke, Sacha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24330758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-258