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Emergency Rooms: Coping with a Crisis

Record #:
16561
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Abstract:
Nationwide, hospital emergency departments are seeing an increase in patient visits. A death of primary care physicians, coupled with a rise in uninsured patients, is among the contributing factors. In the National Report Card on State of Emergency Medicine, North Carolina an overall C- with areas of failing in access to emergency care and medical liability.
Source:
Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 10 Issue 1, Jan 2009, p32-39, f