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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...
Autores principales: | Vainieri, Milena, Panero, Cinzia, Coletta, Lucrezia |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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