Which patients spend more than 4 hours in the Accident and Emergency department?
Author(s) -
Amy Downing,
Richard C. Wilson,
Matthew W Cooke
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdh141
Subject(s) - medicine , attendance , demography , accident and emergency , names of the days of the week , emergency medicine , logistic regression , multinomial logistic regression , medical emergency , pediatrics , linguistics , philosophy , machine learning , sociology , computer science , economics , economic growth
The NHS Plan has a target that no patient should spend longer than 4 hours in Accident and Emergency (A & E) by the end of 2004. The aim of this study is to describe the attendance characteristics of patients spending less than and more than 4 hours total time in A & E.
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