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Emergency department overcrowding: Causes, impacts, and strategies for effective management [PDF]
, 2021 Background: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding arises from an imbalance between patient demand and hospital capacity, significantly affecting hospital systems and patient care.
Alanazi, Mohammed Ayyat +8 more
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Emergency department overcrowding and access block [PDF]
CJEM, 2013 Emergency department overcrowding (EDOC) is defined as a situation where the demand for emergency services exceeds the ability of an emergency department (ED) to provide quality care within appropriate time frames. ED overcrowding has been a key issue in Emergency Medicine in Canada for more than 20 years.
Andrew, Affleck +4 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding adversely affects patients’ health, accessibility, and quality of healthcare systems for communities. Several studies have addressed this issue.
Hamid Reza Rasouli +2 more
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Overcrowding in emergency department: an international issue [PDF]
Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2014 Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) has become an increasingly significant worldwide public health problem in the last decade. It is a consequence of simultaneous increasing demand for health care and a deficit in available hospital beds and ED beds, as for example it occurs in mass casualty incidents, but also in other conditions causing a ...
DI SOMMA, Salvatore +5 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background During the recent outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), Lombardy was the most affected region in Italy, with 87,000 patients and 15,876 deaths up to May 26, 2020.
Laura Castoldi +3 more
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Demand, overcrowding and the pediatric emergency department [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2019 [See related article at [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.181426][2]][2] KEY POINTS Demand on pediatric emergency departments is increasing. A linked study provides evidence that overcrowding in Canadian pediatric emergency departments negatively affects the care of both those triaged ...
Alexander, Moylan, Ian, Maconochie
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2018 Background Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a potential threat for patient safety. We searched for independent determinants of prolonged ED length of stay (LOS) with the aim to identify factors which can be targeted to reduce ED LOS, which may ...
Daniël van der Veen +4 more
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Ontology for Overcrowding Management in Emergency Department
, 2022 Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is an ongoing problem worldwide. Scoring systems are available for the detection of this problem. This study aims to combine a model that allows the detection and management of overcrowding. Therefore, it is crucial to implement a system that can reason model, rank ED resources and ED performance indicators based ...
Fakhfakh Maala, Khouloud +6 more
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A case study to investigate the impact of overcrowding indices in emergency departments
BMC Emergency Medicine, 2022 Background Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is widespread in hospitals in many countries, causing severe consequences to patient outcomes, staff work and the system, with an overall increase in costs.
Giovanni Improta +5 more
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Strategies to Reduce Emergency Department Overcrowding [PDF]
, 2006 This report aims to identify strategies that have been evaluated and reported in the literature and to assess their effectiveness in reducing emergency department overcrowding.
Collins, Seana +3 more
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