Impact of health care system interventions on emergency department utilization and overcrowding in Singapore
Open Access
- 14 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 1 (1), 11-20
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12245-008-0004-8
Abstract
Public emergency departments (EDs) in Singapore were facing increasing attendances (visits) with frequent overcrowding in the 10 years from 1975 to 1985. Over the next 12 years a series of social interventions were carried out to minimize “unnecessary” attendances at these EDs.Keywords
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