Putting the Squeeze on Emergency Medicine
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Topics
- Vol. 68 (4) , 21-24
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00185868.1990.9948440
Abstract
Whether it's indigent care, cost containment, transfer laws, financially wary HMOs, overcrowding, reimbursement, or emergency-department inefficiency, the factors "putting the squeeze" on emergency medicine seem to multiply with each new survey. These pressures, the authors feel, are not only weakening the provision of emergency care but also strengthening the argument for a national health plan.Keywords
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