Targets and moving goal posts: Changes in waiting times in a UK emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 710-714

  Locker, T ^a   Mason, S ^a   Wardrope, J ^b   Walters, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 26944477423     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.019042     Document Type: Article

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