Consequences of Queuing for Care at a Public Hospital Emergency Department

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 266, Issue 8, 1991, Pages 1091-1096

  Bindman, Andrew B ^a,b,c   Grumbach, Kevin ^c   Keane, Dennis ^a   Rauch, Loren ^c   Luce, John M ^a,b,c  

^a Depts of Medicine and Psychiatry   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 300 TO 499; HOSPITALS, MUNICIPAL; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DROPOUTS; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0025774179     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1991.03470080061030     Document Type: Article

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