National Study of Non-Urgent Emergency Department Visits and Associated Resource Utilization
Introduction: Reducing non-urgent emergency department (ED) visits has been targeted as a method to produce cost savings. To better describe these visits, we sought to compare resource utilization of ED visits characterized as non-urgent at triage to immediate, emergent, or urgent (IEU) visits.Metho...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1k92g70r |