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Crowding Delays Treatment and Lengthens Emergency Department Length of Stay, Even Among High-Acuity Patients
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 08/14/09
McCarthy ML et al. – Using discrete–time survival analysis, the authors were able to dynamically measure crowding throughout each patient's ED visit and demonstrate its deleterious effect on the timeliness of emergency care, even for high–acuity patients.
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