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ER waits in Massachusetts longest at teaching hospitals
Quality Improvement Monitor, March 30, 2007
It takes two to three hours on average to receive care in a
More than 80,000 people during one year had visits of upward of eight hours, according to a report commissioned by the Globe.
Between October 2004 and September 2005, the time spent in the ER, from registration to discharge, ranged from 1.4 hours at tiny
It took an average of four to five hours to treat patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital and
For more information, click here http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/other/articles/2007/03/25/at_the_er_the_stay_can_reach_8_hours/
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