TY - JOUR T1 - Patient satisfaction may need to be weighed by patient acuity in the emergency department JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 269 LP - 269 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2016-206289 VL - 34 IS - 4 AU - Amir Mirhaghi Y1 - 2017/04/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/4/269.1.abstract N2 - Dear Editor,I have read the outstanding publication of Abolfotouh et al1 entitled ‘Predictors of patient satisfaction in an emergency care center in central Saudi Arabia: a prospective study’ published in this journal. The authors reported that lower satisfaction was associated with male gender, long waiting time and low perceived health status. Several features of Abolfotouh et al's study merit attention, particularly those of sociocultural values, as few studies have investigated sociocultural predictors of … ER -