Relieving overcrowded emergency departments through ambulance diversion.
One city's solution to overcrowded emergency departments and a shortage of beds was the installation of an ambulance-diversion system, whereby ambulances carrying patients with relatively minor injuries were diverted, when necessary, from the city's busy emergency departments to less crowded ones in neighboring counties.
Lagoe
R J
RJ
Hospital Executive Council, Syracuse, NY.
Jastremski
M S
MS
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