Toward understanding the difference between using patients or encounters in the accounting of emergency department utilization

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-698

  Fertel, Baruch S ^a   Hart, Kimberly W ^a,b   Lindsell, Christopher J ^a   Ryan, Richard J ^a   Lyons, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870238518     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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