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QJM Advance Access originally published online on May 9, 2007
QJM 2007 100(7):463-464; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcm037
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Acute medicine: do we need ‘medical traffic wardens’ to make us interested in general medical patients?

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Sir,

The much discussed ‘4 hour target’—all patients must be admitted into a bed or discharged from the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department (or equivalent) within 4 h of admission—was developed partly in response to clear public concern that patients waited too long in A&E to be seen and sorted. It was first set as a target in early 2004.

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A. Stein

Renal Unit
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Coventry
UK

J. Henley

Admission & Planning Unit
Auckland City Hospital
Auckland
New Zealand

email: andrewstein@btinternet.com


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