Entry overload, emergency department overcrowding, and ambulance bypass

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 406-409

  Fatovich, Daniel M ^a   Hirsch, R L ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0141459673     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.5.406     Document Type: Article

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