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Requests for 692 Transfers to an Academic Level I Trauma Center Implications of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
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Article
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Source
The Journal of Trauma; January 2007, Vol. 62 Issue: 1 p63-68, 6p
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00225282
Abstract
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) effectively requires Level I trauma centers (TC) to accept all transfers for a higher level of care if capacity exists. We hypothesized that EMTALA would burden a Level I TC by a selective referral of a poor payer mix of primarily nonoperative patients.