Is emergency department closure resulting in increased distance to the nearest emergency department associated with increased inpatient mortality?

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Published in Ann Emerg Med on September 29, 2012

Authors

Renee Y Hsia1, Hemal K Kanzaria, Tanja Srebotnjak, Judy Maselli, Charles McCulloch, Andrew D Auerbach

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA.

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