Worth the wait: The impact of government funding on hospital emergency waiting timesEmergency waiting timesHealth econometricsHealth policyHospital fundingIn the absence of a price mechanism, emergency department waiting times act as a rationing device to equate demand for treatment with available supply....
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Association between waiting times and short term mortality and hospital admission after departure from emergency department: population based cohort study from Ontario, Canada. Bmj. 2011;342.Guttmann A, Schull MJ, Vermeulen MJ, Stukel TA. Association between waiting times and short term mortality and...
don’t wait to see what happens. Call for an ambulance or immediately take them to an emergency room yourself if you are closer. Any time you suspect that someone’s life is in danger or that they might lose a limb, and you aren’t sure what to do, call an ambulance. ...
Later, his office said he would be transferred to Sao Paulo for further testing and possible emergency surgery due to the obstructed intestine. As news of his worsening condition broke, Bolsonaro posted a photo of himself shirtless with his eyes closed, lying in a hospital bed co...
Ministers have also resisted apologizing for a shortage of protective gear for hospital staff. In a sign of the gravity of the emergency, Queen Elizabeth issued her second rallying message in a week, telling the nation that "coronavirus will not overcome us". (With input from Reuters...
U.N. Secretary-General condemns hospital strike; Security Council calls emergency meeting for Wednesday U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "horrified" and "strongly condemns" the strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in Gaza on Tuesday. ...
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Emergency physicians are responsible for the out-of-hospital treatment of victims from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), not only with regard on the medical treatment, but also in terms of the choice of the most suitable hospital. We therefore wanted to determine whether nonmedical processes...