Emergency department overcrowding - Implications for paediatric emergency medicine

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 491-494

  Sinclair, Douglas ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency department overcrowding; Emergency paediatrics

Indexed keywords

CROWDING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW;

EID: 34948908021     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/12.6.491     Document Type: Review

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