Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 657-665, December 1996

Effects of Actual Waiting Time, Perceived Waiting Time, Information Delivery, and Expressive Quality on Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department☆☆

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 1995.

Received 15 May 1995; received in revised form 8 January 1996 and 1 August 1996; accepted 29 March 1996.

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 From the Emergency Department, MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, Illinois* and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Emergency Medincine§, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School and the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Emergency Department, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.

☆☆ Address for reprints: David A Thompson, MD, Emergency Department, MacNeal Hospital, 3249 South Oak Park Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois 60402

 Reprint no. 47/1/77452

PII: S0196-0644(96)70090-2

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 657-665, December 1996