The Effect of Low-Complexity Patients on Emergency Department Waiting Times

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Schull, Michael J ^a,b,c,d   Kiss, Alex ^a,b   Szalai, John Paul ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (Schull Kiss Szalai)   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SHIFT WORKER; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 33847313578     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.06.027     Document Type: Article

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