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Average ER waiting time nears 1 hour, CDC says
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| Last Edited | RP Aug 06, 2008 04:38pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 6, 2008 08:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday.
The increase is due to supply and demand, said Dr. Stephen Pitts, the lead author of the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"There are more people arriving at the ERs. And there are fewer ERs," said Pitts, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Atlanta's Emory University. |
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