TY - JOUR T1 - Out-of-district attenders: the passing trade of an accident and emergency department. JF - Archives of Emergency Medicine JO - Arch Emerg Med SP - 172 LP - 176 DO - 10.1136/emj.10.3.172 VL - 10 IS - 3 AU - G M Bryce AU - J D Houghton Y1 - 1993/09/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/10/3/172.abstract N2 - The resources of accident and emergency (A&E) departments are often required to treat patients who are not within the catchment population of the local health authority. An assessment of workload caused by this particular group was carried out over a 2-month period at Northampton General Hospital which serves a population of 318,000. Details were collected and analysed on the patients' reason for attendance, investigations and treatment. ER -