It is widely recognized that the demand for emergency services is rising. Emergency
department (ED) utilization increased from 36.9 visits per 100 persons per year in
1995 to 42.8 in 2010 [
1
,
2
]. With increasingly time- and personnel-constrained EDs, self-service kiosks have
emerged as one potential solution to perform simple tasks such as registration and
information distribution. This process-oriented solution may free up health care providers
for more complex duties and is particularly relevant to EDs, whose core mission is
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: April 17, 2014
Accepted:
April 8,
2014
Received in revised form:
April 8,
2014
Received:
March 26,
2014
Footnotes
☆The authors do not have associations that might pose a potential conflict of interest.
☆☆Support was provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s HIV FOCUS program. Hsieh, Rothman, and Gaydos are also supported by NIH U54EB007958.
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