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On posting wait times: an alternate view

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Howard Ovens ,
Andrew Affleck  and
Eric Letovsky
Howard Ovens*
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network; and Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
Andrew Affleck
Affiliation:
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and NorthWest Local Health Integration Network, Thunder Bay, ON
Eric Letovsky
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON; Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; and Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network, Oakville, ON
*
Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; howard.ovens@utoronto.ca

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Keywords

emergency department administrationemergency department overcrowdingwait times
Type
Editorial • Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2014

References

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