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HCFO Study on Emergency Department Access Highlighted in Bloomberg News
PrintPublication Date:
May 18, 2011
A HCFO-sponsored study led by Yu-Chu Shen, Ph.D., of the Naval Postgraduate School, was highlighted in Bloomberg News. The article, "Hospitals Eliminate 1 in 4 US Emergency Rooms Since 1990, Study Finds" discusses the finding of Shen and her colleagues that a large number of US emergency departments (EDs) has closed while the number of ED visits has increased.