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Emergency department overcrowding and access block

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Andrew Affleck
Affiliation:
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON; CAEP Public Affairs
Paul Parks
Affiliation:
Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, Medicine Hat, AB
Alan Drummond
Affiliation:
Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, Perth, ON; CAEP Public Affairs
Brian H. Rowe
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Howard J. Ovens*
Affiliation:
Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
*
Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ONM5G 1X5; howard.ovens@utoronto.ca.

Abstract

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Type
CAEP Position Statement
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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