Provision of clinically based information improves patients' perceived length of stay and satisfaction with EP

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 506-509

  Tran, T Paul ^b   Schutte, Warren P ^a   Muelleman, Robert L ^a   Wadman, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Information; Length of stay; Patient satisfaction; Wait time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL;

EID: 0036793362     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ajem.2002.32652     Document Type: Article

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