Lack of CT scanner in a rural emergency department increases inter-facility transfers: a pilot study

OBJECTIVE: Rural emergency departments (EDs) are an important gateway to care for the 20% of Canadians who reside in rural areas. Less than 15% of Canadian rural EDs have access to a computed tomography (CT) scanner. We hypothesized that a significant proportion of inter-facility transfers from rura...

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Autores principales: Bergeron, Catherine, Fleet, Richard, Tounkara, Fatoumata Korika, Lavallée-Bourget, Isabelle, Turgeon-Pelchat, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3071-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3071-1

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