Overcrowding: Harming the patients of tomorrow?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-60

  Fisher, Jonathan ^a   Sokolove, Peter E ^b   Kelly, Sean P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Education; Educational research; Overcrowding

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CROWDING; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; TEACHING;

EID: 58149499015     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00260.x     Document Type: Note

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