Demand, overcrowding and the pediatric emergency department

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK alexander.moylan@nhs.net.
² Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK.

Comment

Alexander Moylan et al. CMAJ. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 10;191(23):E625-E626.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.190610. Epub 2019 Jun 10.

¹ Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK alexander.moylan@nhs.net.
² Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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