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The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments
Author(s) -
Sprivulis Peter C,
Da Silva JulieAnn,
Jacobs Ian G,
Frazer Amanda R L,
Jelinek George A
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00416.x
Subject(s) - overcrowding , confidentiality , medicine , family medicine , emergency department , ethics committee , george (robot) , medical emergency , political science , law , psychiatry , history , public administration , art history
To examine the relationship between hospital and emergency department (ED) occupancy, as indicators of hospital overcrowding, and mortality after emergency admission.