Hospital Surge Capacity: If You Can't Always Get What You Want, Can You Get What You Need?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 389-390

  Schull, Michael J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BED OCCUPANCY; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GUIDELINES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; LICENSURE, HOSPITAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEW JERSEY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748982012     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.06.003     Document Type: Editorial

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