Factors Influencing Hospital Admission of Non-critically Ill Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department: a Cross-sectional Study.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on June 18, 2015

Authors

Ashley E Lewis Hunter1, Erica S Spatz2,3, Steven L Bernstein4,3, Marjorie S Rosenthal5,3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. alewishunter@mednet.ucla.edu.
2: Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
3: Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
4: Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
5: Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

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