Article Text
Statistics from Altmetric.com
We would like to thank Dr Leung et al 1 and the editors for the opportunity to engage in further discussion on the issues presented in our commentary entitled ‘Tackling the demand for emergency department services: there are no silver bullets’.2 We believe that the intervention proposed by Leung et al 3 demonstrated improved timeliness to definitive patient care and was an important contribution to the medical literature around emergency department (ED) flow optimisation. Furthermore, we applaud the authors on a broader adoption of the programme to their local clinical environment and their ability to change culture in the clinical …
Footnotes
Contributors Both authors drafted the letter and approved the final submission.
Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.