Emergency department overcrowding as a threat to patient dignity
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Emergency department overcrowding as a threat to patient dignity.
mergency department (ED) overcrowding is the subject of intense study to evaluate its causes and consequences. However, although implied, there is little mention of the threat that overcrowding poses to patient dignity. This threat is intuitively obvious to health care providers and patients in the ED, yet it is elusive to prove, as there is neither a universally accepted definition of dignity ...
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عنوان ژورنال: CJEM
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1481-8035,1481-8043
DOI: 10.1017/s1481803500011428