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. 1999 Jul 17;319(7203):158-9.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7203.158.

The rise in emergency admissions--crisis or artefact? Temporal analysis of health services data

K Morgan  1 , D Prothero, S Frankel
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The rise in emergency admissions--crisis or artefact? Temporal analysis of health services data

K Morgan et al. BMJ. .
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Numbers of episodes, admissions, and individual patients, 1989-90 to 1977-8, all specialties and all ages, Avon Health Authority (population 850 000)
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