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Access to emergency care in rural Canada: should we be concerned?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Richard Fleet ,
Patrick Archambault ,
Jeff Plant  and
Julien Poitras
Richard Fleet*
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC Centre of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital – a Université Laval Affiliated Hospital
Patrick Archambault
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC Centre of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital – a Université Laval Affiliated Hospital
Jeff Plant
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Department of Emergency Medicine, Penticton Regional Hospital, Penticton, BC
Julien Poitras
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC Centre of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital – a Université Laval Affiliated Hospital
*
Research Centre, Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, 143 Wolfe Street, Lévis, QC G6V 3Z1; rfleet@videotron.ca

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Type
Editorial • Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , July 2013 , pp. 191 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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