Emergency Departments, Acute Heart Failure, and Admissions
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Emergency Departments, Acute Heart Failure, and Admissions
Nearly 130 million visits to emergency departments (EDs) occur every year in the United States (1). Whether patients should have gone to the ED in the first place is frequently debated, because the ED is often viewed as an overcrowded, overused, misused, and costly resource. Yet patients rarely present to the ED for unnecessary reasons (2). Judging appropriateness of ED visits often suffers fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: JACC: Heart Failure
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2213-1779
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.03.003