The quality gap: searching for the consequences of emergency department crowding.

From the Clinical Research Unit, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO (Magid); the Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN (Asplin); and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health Center Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL (Wears).

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