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Primary care and public emergency department overcrowding.

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Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine +15

Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans

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Business, Health Services Administration, Insurance +13

Inappropriate use of an accident and emergency department: Magnitude, associated factors, and reasons—An approach with explicit criteria

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Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medicine +11

Non-urgent visits to a hospital emergency department in Italy

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Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine +2

Non-urgent care in the hospital medical emergency department in France: how much and which health needs does it reflect?

Thierry Lang, A Davido, B Diakite et al. · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health · 1996 · 89 citations · Full text

Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Emergency +12