public hospitals have not been evaluated. The study aims to evaluate the burden of the
financial crisis on public hospital's EDs. Study design The present study is a retrospective
two-center comparative study. Methods ED visits, related admissions per year, and the
admissions/visits ratio at two public Greek hospitals, the Sismanogleio of Athens (SHA) and
the University Hospital of Crete (UHC), from 2008 to 2016 were retrospectively studied. A …