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Article: Emergency departments in crisis: opportunities for research.
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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"If you can barely get through the night's 911 calls, how on earth can you handle a disaster?" asks Arthur L. Kellerman, M.D., a prominent emergency physician from Emory University.
Although large-scale events such as the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina have heightened awareness and concerns about the ability of our emergency system to handle large-scale events, it is clear that emergency rooms in the country are barely able--and in many cases unable--to handle current, every day demand for their services.
Any one who has been to an emergency department recently can attest to the long waits for care. This anecdotal view is borne out by 2004 ...