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The impact of delayed transfers of care on emergency departments: common sense arguments, evidence and confounding
OBJECTIVES: There have been claims that Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOCs) of inpatients to home or a less acute setting are related to Emergency Department (ED) crowding. In particular DTOCs were associated with breaches of the UK 4-hour waiting time target in a previously published analysis. Howeve...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7027036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31767673 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2018-207917 |