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Emergency CareThe Increasing Weight of Increasing Waits
Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc;
Jeffrey A. Tabas, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(20):1836-1838.
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A few months ago, a columnist in The New York Times entitled his article, "When Will Emergency Rooms Go Back to Being Emergency Rooms?" highlighting the issue of waiting times.1 Emergency department (ED) physicians have been asking this question for years. Now, referring physicians, health administrators, patients—and even Congress and the president—are finally asking this question, too.
Increasing attention, both in the media and in the academic literature, has been placed on ED crowding in the past few decades, most prominently in the oft-cited Institute of Medicine report.2 Yet, the amount of real change in this arena has lagged far behind the attention. In the 10-year period between 1994 and 2004, visits increased by 18%, while the number of EDs decreased by 12%.3 By 2006, there were more than 119 million visits to the ED4 compared with 93.4 million in 1994.3 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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