title: Structure and function of a middle-sized accident department.
abstract: An account of the working of a middle-sized accident department is given, based on the study of nearly 33,000 attendance records. The work load, management, and staffing as it is actually organized is briefly described. The effectiveness of the service given is bedevilled by certain features of the N.H.S.-in particular, the deplorable conditions of employment of staff in casualty departments.
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000453:epidemiology; D007255:Information Services; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D012013:Reference Books; D013222:State Medicine; D014852:Wales; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology