Patient Flow from Emergency Department to Inpatient Wards: Empirical Observations from a Singaporean Hospital
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2 NUH Inpatient department 3 2.1 General wards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Admission sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3 Medical specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Rationales for excluding certain wards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.5 Data sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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