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The waiting game: the emergency patient as a customer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2015

Eric Grafstein
Eric Grafstein*
Affiliation:
Emergency Department, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
*
Emergency Department, St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Comox Building Room 108, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6; egrafstein@providencehealth.bc.ca.

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Keywords

dashboardED administrationED capacitywait times
Type
Editorial/Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , July 2012 , pp. 203 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2012

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