Regular attenders to the accident and emergency department
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Regular attenders to the accident and emergency department.
OBJECTIVES To examine the profile of regular attenders to an accident and emergency (A&E) department, and to estimate the percentage of the overall departmental workload attributed to this group of patients, together with the resultant cost to the department of these attendances. METHODS A retrospective study of regular attenders to the A&E department at Hull Royal Infirmary was conducted bet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.17.5.351