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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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Autores principales: Keogh, Brad, Monks, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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