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Our overburdened ERs.

D Carpenter
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Like meteorologists tracking powerful weather systems, hospital officials have watched uneasily for some time as pressures built. The rising number of uninsured, a nursing shortage, lower reimbursements, and more and sicker hospital patients all brought turbulence. Now a convergence of these and other factors poses a serious challenge to emergency rooms, raising concerns about the stability of the nation's health care delivery system.

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D Carpenter. 2001. Our overburdened ERs.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11291177/

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