ED overcrowding: "Hey, remember that canary we had? It died in the coal mine."

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA. jsrose@ucdavis.edu.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
³ Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Editorial

John S Rose et al. CJEM. 2023 Jul.

. 2023 Jul;25(7):545-546.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-023-00542-x.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA. jsrose@ucdavis.edu.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
³ Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

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Comment in

Letter to the Editor: Impact of alternative pathways from 911 calls on ED overcrowding.
Austin MA. Austin MA. CJEM. 2024 Feb;26(2):134-135. doi: 10.1007/s43678-023-00603-1. Epub 2023 Oct 7. CJEM. 2024. PMID: 37804478 No abstract available.

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