Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017)
Commentary

Québec’s emergency room overcrowding and long wait times: don’t apply “Band-Aids”, treat the underlying disease!

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  • Svetlana Puzhko
Svetlana Puzhko
McGill University
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v15i1.90

Published 2017-08-05

Keywords

  • wait time,
  • emergency department,
  • primary care,
  • community-based

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Puzhko S. Québec’s emergency room overcrowding and long wait times: don’t apply “Band-Aids”, treat the underlying disease!. McGill J Med [Internet]. 2017 Aug. 5 [cited 2025 Oct. 6];15(1). Available from: https://mjm.mcgill.ca/article/view/90

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