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Arrival time pattern and waiting time distribution of patients in the emergency outpatient department of a tertiary level health care institution of North India

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014
Background: Emergency Department (ED) of tertiary health care institute in India is mostly overcrowded, over utilized and inappropriately staffed.
Yogesh Tiwari, Sonu Goel, Amarjeet Singh
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Modelling the public transport capacity constraints’ impact on passenger path choices in transit assignment models [PDF]

Archives of Transport, 2017
The objective of this paper is to discuss the replication of passenger congestion (overcrowding) effects on output path choices in public transport assignment models.
Arkadiusz Drabicki, Rafał Kucharski, Andrzej Szarata   +2 more
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The Frequency and Common Causes of Unscheduled Adult Emergency Department Return Visits Within 72 Hours at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam: A Cross-Sectional Study

Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background: Emergency Departments (ED) are becoming one of the most overcrowded departments globally. This study aims to investigate the frequency and causes of unscheduled patient return to the ED in King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Dammam (KFSH-D ...
Malak Jamaan Alzahrani, Ola Hamad Sumayli, Yousef Alhawsawi, Eman Saud Alkhaldi, Omar Oussama Al-Hayek, Danah Abdulaziz Aljeri, Fay Salah Alhamad, Lina Abdulaziz AlMudayris, Mohammad Abdullah Alabdulgader   +8 more
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The impact of emergency department crowding and patient boarding on resident point‐of‐care ultrasound education

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
Objectives Emergency department (ED) crowding negatively affects patient care, but the effect on resident education has been difficult to quantify. We aimed to describe the relationship between ED crowding and residents’ ability to meet point‐of‐care ...
Brandon Michael Wubben, Nicholas Chmielewski, Paul Van Heukelom, Cory Wittrock   +3 more
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Impact of the Implementation of a Low-Complexity Emergency Care Protocol in the Patient Experience at a Level 3 Academic Institution in Colombia

Open Access Emergency Medicine
German Devia Jaramillo,1,2 Juan Pablo Vargas Gallo,1 Nathalia Maria Esmeral-Zuluaga3 1Emergency Department Hospital Universitario Fundación Santafé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia; 2Grupo de Investigación Clínica, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud ...
Devia Jaramillo G, Vargas Gallo JP, Esmeral-Zuluaga NM   +2 more
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Overcrowded ERs: analysis of the phenomenon and managing proposals

Emergency Care Journal, 2010
The “overcrowding” in Emergency Departments (EDs) and its potentially negative consequences, is a well known phenomenon in western countries.
Gianfranco Cervellin, Mario Cavazza, Gianni Rastelli   +2 more
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Overcrowding in Italian Jails. A Quantitative Analysis of Foreigners (Supraaglomerarea în închisorile italiene. O analiză cantitativă asupra străinilor) [PDF]

Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2013
Victims of prison-overcrowding in Italy are part of a structural and systemic problem which is still struggling to find plausible solutions. When natives and foreigners are separately considered, the overcrowding phenomenon assumes a perspective that ...
Stefania GIRONE, Francesca De PALMA
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Baldomero Sanín Cano in La Nación of Buenos Aires (1909-1957). Newspapers, diplomatics and international political analysis

Historia y Sociedad, 2013
Baldomero Sanín Cano was one of Colombians most prominent thinkers of the twen- tieth century. This essay seeks to outline the critical intellectual profile setting its sight on the newspapers, diplomatics and international politics analysis.
Rafael Rubiano Muñoz
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Perceptions of Emergency Department Crowding in Pennsylvania

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: The state of emergency department (ED) crowding in Pennsylvania has not previously been reported.Methods: We assessed perceptions of ED crowding by surveying medical directors/chairs from Pennsylvania EDs in the spring of 2008.Results: A ...
Pines, Jesse M, Isserman, Joshua A, Kelly, John J   +2 more
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Overcrowding in prisons: Health and legal implications

Torture
Introduction: Prison overcrowding can be defined in different ways, and no universal definition exists. More than 120 countries report prison occupancy rates above their own capacity.
Eva Nudd, Maha Aon, Kalliopi Kambanella, Marie Brasholt   +3 more
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