The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Are testers also admitters? Comparing emergency physician resource utilization and admitting practices.
To describe the relationship between emergency department resource utilization and admission rate at the level of the individual physician. ⋯ In a two-facility study, emergency physician resource utilization and admission rate were positively correlated: those who used more ED resources also tended to admit more patients. These results add to a growing understanding of emergency physician variability.