Emergency department overcrowding following systematic hospital restructuring: Trends at twenty hospitals over ten years

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1037-1043

  Schull, M J ^a   Szalai, J P ^a   Schwartz, B ^a   Redelmeier, D A ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Hospital restructuring; Overcrowding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034761099     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01112.x     Document Type: Article

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