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Bursting at the Seams: Improving Patient Flow to Help America’s Emergency Departments
Wilson MJ, Nguyen K. Bursting at the Seams: Improving Patient Flow to Help America’s Emergency Departments. Urgent Matters Learning Network White Paper; September 2004.

Across America, hospital emergency departments (EDs) are in crisis. For many American communities, the local hospital ED has become the linchpin of the health care safety net. With their legal obligation to see all patients at all times, and with more people than ever seeking their services, EDs nationwide are bursting at the seams.

 

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