Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction: Examining the Role of Acuity

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-168

  Boudreaux, Edwin D ^a   Friedman, Jason ^a   Chansky, Michael E ^a   Baumann, Brigitte M ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acuity; Emergency department; Patient satisfaction; Throughput times

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PARAMETER; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0842347587     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.08.018     Document Type: Article

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