Reducing patient time in the emergency department

Richardson, Drew B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05672.x

Topics

Health services administration

Emergency medicine

Most of the solutions lie beyond the emergency department

Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.

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