✔
Urban emergency departments
see a greater proportion of their
patients in the middle of the
night than rural ones.
✔
The proportion of patients seen
in the middle of the night has
increased in urban areas.
Exhibit Highlights
Exhibit 7: Night-time Visits to Emergency Departments by Urban/Rural
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Status, 1993 and 2000
Data Source: Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
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Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Emergency Department Services in Ontario
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Rural EDs are defined as those which were eligible for Scott Sessional fees in 1999.
