The Costs of Visits to Emergency Departments
Open Access
- 7 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 334 (10), 642-646
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199603073341007
Abstract
Many visits to emergency departments are for minor medical problems, and these visits are criticized as being expensive and economically inefficient. This study examines the marginal costs (the extra costs for an additional visit) of emergency department visits.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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