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42. Your Doctor Has to Go Home. Now What?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The End of Shift in Emergency Departments

There was no change in overall patient outcomes, such as mortality or whether a patient revisits the hospital. But you saw a shifting from emergency department resources on to broader hospital resources. So it's not very efficient. You'uld end up spending abit more money whenever you admit a patient. And from the patient's point of view, you might spend a night at the hospital,. whereas you could have been sent home.

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