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Wait times remain stubbornly long in hospital emergency rooms

  • Written by Paul Shafer, Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Each year, there are well over 100 million hospital emergency department visits in the U.S. In 2017, there were about 139 million, or 43 visits for every 100 Americans.

While wait times have declined in the last decade – now averaging about 40 minutes – they remain stubbornly long. Millions of patients...

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