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- Title
Increasing length of stay among adult visits to U.S. Emergency departments, 2001-2005.
- Authors
Herring, Andrew; Wilper, Andrew; Himmelstein, David U; Woolhandler, Steffie; Espinola, Janice A; Brown, David F M; Camargo, Carlos A, Jr
- Abstract
Emergency departments (EDs) are traditionally designed to provide rapid evaluation and stabilization and are neither staffed nor equipped to provide prolonged care. Longer ED length of stay (LOS) may compromise quality of care and contribute to delays in the emergency evaluation of other patients.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009, Vol 16, Issue 7, p609
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00428.x