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Changes in admission thresholds in English emergency departments

BACKGROUND: The most common route to a hospital bed in an emergency is via an Emergency Department (ED). Many recent initiatives and interventions have the objective of reducing the number of unnecessary emergency admissions. We aimed to assess whether ED admission thresholds had changed over time t...

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Autores principales: Wyatt, Steven, Child, Kieran, Hood, Andrew, Cooke, Matthew, Mohammed, Mohammed A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5750365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28899922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2016-206213