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Aug
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: American College of Emergency Physicians. emergency room closures and patient mortality rates, emergency room (ER) closures and access to care, emergency room closures-- California, emergency room use, ER closures and vulnerable populations
According to a news bulletin from the American College of Emergency Physicians®, a recent California study discovered that closing hospital emergency departments increases the mortality rate of patients who were forced to go to the next nearest emergency room. Patients admitted to hospitals in the vicinity of a hospital that had closed its emergency […]
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