HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE/ORIGINAL RESEARCH Characteristics of Frequent Users of Emergency Departments
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Kelly A. Hunt, MPP Ellen J. Weber, MD Jonathan A. Showstack, PhD, MPH David C. Colby, PhD Michael L. Callaham, MD From Research & Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (Hunt, Colby); and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine (Weber, Callaham), Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Medicine (Showstack), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
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