Non-urgent patients in the Emergency Departement
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Non-urgent patients in an Emergency Medical Service.
BACKGROUND Emergency Medical Services (ES) are medical-surgical facilities where extremely ill patients, victims of accidents, intoxications and other urgent clinical situations should be rapidly and efficiently attended. However, a worldwide experience is that a large proportion of patients who require attention in an ES do not qualify as emergencies and they obstruct the possibilities of othe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Care Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1826-9826
DOI: 10.4081/ecj.2008.6.19