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Waiting times in emergency departments: a resource allocation or an efficiency issue?

BACKGROUND: In recent years, the flow of patients to the Emergency Departments (ED) of Western countries has steadily increased, thus generating overcrowding and extended waiting times. Scholars have identified four main causes for this phenomenon, related to: continuity of primary care services; av...

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Autores principales: Vainieri, Milena, Panero, Cinzia, Coletta, Lucrezia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32552829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05417-w