P130: Timely initial assessment by a physician (IAP) improves community emergency department wait times
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Advertising Emergency Department Wait Times
Advertising emergency department (ED) wait times has become a common practice in the United States. Proponents of this practice state that it is a powerful marketing strategy that can help steer patients to the ED. Opponents worry about the risk to the public health that arises from a patient with an emergent condition self-triaging to a further hospital, problems with inaccuracy and lack of st...
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether wait times for children treated in emergency departments (EDs) nationally are associated with patient race/ethnicity. METHODS Data were obtained from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which collects information on patient visits to EDs throughout the United States. We examined data for patients < or =15 years of age who presented to EDs durin...
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عنوان ژورنال: CJEM
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1481-8035,1481-8043
DOI: 10.1017/cem.2019.321