Toward assessing outcomes of emergency care.
Establishing the efficacy of emergency care for patients--what should or should not be done in the emergency department--requires patients to come to an ED under close-to-ideal situations, and on leaving the ED to be treated under ideal circumstances. Randomized, controlled clinical trials are needed to answer the efficacy question.
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RAND Health Sciences Program, Santa Monica, CA 90401-3297, USA. robertvbrook@rand.org
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