Without more acute care beds, hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises
Catherine Varner
Abstract
[See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.221516][1] In this issue of CMAJ , Yao and colleagues present findings from British Columbia, showing that visits to emergency departments for most reasons returned to baseline levels by the summer of 2021, following a dramatic decrease in
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