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- Title
The shortage of on-call surgical specialist coverage: a national survey of emergency department directors.
- Authors
Rao, Mitesh B; Lerro, Catherine; Gross, Cary P
- Abstract
problems with on-call specialist physician coverage have been identified as a significant issue for our nation's health care system. Despite this, little is known about the full extent of these coverage deficiencies in emergency departments (EDs), their effect on emergency care provision, or the subsequent effect on patient flow should specialist-requiring patients need to be transferred to centers of higher-level care. The objective was to report the experiences of a national sample of ED directors regarding the degree of difficulty in providing specialist coverage and the effect of on-call coverage problems on emergency patient care.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 12, p1374
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00927.x