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Characterizing waiting room time, treatment time, and boarding time in the emergency department using quantile regression.

Ru Ding, Melissa L McCarthy, Jeffrey S Desmond, Jennifer S Lee, Dominik Aronsky, and Scott L Zeger

Acad Emerg Med 17(8):813-23 (2010) PMID 20670318

The objective was to characterize service completion times by patient, clinical, temporal, and crowding factors for different phases of emergency care using quantile regression (QR).

DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00812.x
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