Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 6 , Pages 568-579, June 2001

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

Presented in part at the XIX Meeting of Health Economics, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1999.

From the Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital General Universitario, Elche*; Fundación Instituto de Investigación en Servicios de Salud, València‡; and Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia,§ Spain

Received 10 April 2000; received in revised form 13 September 2000; accepted 24 October 2000.

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☆ Address for reprints: Salvador Peiró, MD, PhD, Fundación Instituto de Investigación en Servicios de Salud, Pl. María Beneyto 2, 10–46008 València, Spain; +34-96-3920574; E-mail speiro@comv.es .

PII: S0196-0644(01)30058-6

doi:10.1067/mem.2001.113464

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