Characterizing emergency departments to improve understanding of emergency care systems
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Characterizing emergency departments to improve understanding of emergency care systems
International emergency medicine aims to understand different systems of emergency care across the globe. To date, however, international emergency medicine lacks common descriptors that can encompass the wide variety of emergency care systems in different countries. The frequent use of general, system-wide indicators (e.g. the status of emergency medicine as a medical specialty or the presence...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1865-1380
DOI: 10.1186/1865-1380-4-42