Market factors affect closures of emergency departments nationwide

Friday, June 10, 2011 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

Despite a rise in the number of emergency room patients, the number of hospital-based emergency departments in the U.S. is in decline, according to a study led by Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, an emergency physician at San Francisco General Hospital, and featured in the May 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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