Emergency Severity Index Triage System Correlation with Emergency Department Evaluation and Management Billing Codes and Total Professional Charges
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Waiting Times in Emergency Department After Using the Emergency Severity Index Triage Tool
BACKGROUND Hospital emergency departments (EDs) are as barometers of the health care system. Crowded EDs threaten delivery of timely care. Prolonged ED wait times reduce the quality of care and increase adverse and sometimes irreversible events. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the patients' waiting time at Namazi and Shahid Faghihi hospitals in Shiraz, Iran. PATIENTS A...
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background hospital emergency departments (eds) are as barometers of the health care system. crowded eds threaten delivery of timely care. prolonged ed wait times reduce the quality of care and increase adverse and sometimes irreversible events. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the patients' waiting time at namazi and shahid faghihi hospitals in shiraz, iran. patients and m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1069-6563
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01203.x