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Change in parental reasons for use of an urban pediatric emergency department in the past decade.

Time to care.

RAND Institute for Civil Justice report on the abuse of medical diagnostic practices in mass tort litigation: lessons learned from the 'phantom' silica epidemic that may deter litigation screening abuse.

[Inertia or overtreatment in children. When sleeping time is disturbed in infants: how to improve the family's distress]

[Frequent attendance: primary care professional's perceptions of definitions, motives, situations and relationships with frequent attenders patients]

[Over-diagnosis and over-treatment of major depressive disorder in primary care. An increasing phenomenon].

Promoting health literacy with vulnerable behavioral health clients.

Audit of frequent attendees to an ENT emergency clinic.

Incidental renal tumours.

Frequency and Correlates of Inappropriate Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Room Visits

Trauma, Emergency Room Visits, and Cognition

Ambulance services. Urgent attention for non-emergency care.

Exploring the impact of patient views on 'appropriate' use of services and help seeking: a mixed method study.

Easing the pressure on A&E.

Getting the most from MAPS: the Michigan Automated Prescription System.

Revisiting predictors of parental health care-seeking behaviors for nonurgent conditions at one inner-city hospital.

What Brings Newborns to the Emergency Department?

[Diagnostic and therapeutic consequences of abnormal ultrasound findings]

Identifying potentially avoidable hospital admissions from canadian long-term care facilities.

Assessment of inappropriate hospital stays in a cardiology department.