Reduction of pediatric emergency hospital admissions by a change in pediatric emergency department policy

Background: Reduction in admissions is an important aim of emergency department working policy to overcome the problems of a shortage of inpatient beds, rising costs and exhausted resources. A new policy was instituted in the pediatric emergency department (PED) of a hospital in Kuwait with the foll...

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Main Authors: Marzouq A Alazmi, Ahmed F Elhassanien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock
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Online Access:http://www.onlinejets.org/article.asp?issn=0974-2700;year=2013;volume=6;issue=3;spage=209;epage=212;aulast=Alazmi