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Occupancy Rates and Emergency Department Work Index Scores Correlate with Leaving Without Being Seen

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2010
Objective: Two crowding metrics are often used to measure emergency department (ED) crowding: the occupancy rate and the emergency department work index (EDWIN) score.
Kulstad, Erik B   +2 more
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcrowding in emergency departments: A review of strategies to decrease future challenges

open access: yesJournal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Emergency departments (EDs) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. The goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in EDs.
Mohammad H Yarmohammadian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

PEMBARUAN KEBIJAKAN PEMIDANAAN DALAM RANGKA MENGATASI FAKTOR PENYEBAB OVERCROWDING LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN DI INDONESIA

open access: yesMasalah-Masalah Hukum
Tulisan ini mengkaji overcrowding sebagai permasalahan utama yang dihadapi mayoritas lembaga pemasyarakatan di Indonesia. Permasalahan overcrowding merupakan persoalan hilir yang tidak dapat diselesaikan secara parsial, sehingga dibutuhkan pemahaman yang
Hamja Hamja
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between the Emergency Department Length of Stay and in-Hospital Mortality: A Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesOpen Access Emergency Medicine, 2023
Hadiki Habib,1– 3,* Mondastri Korib Sudaryo4,* 1Doctoral Program of Epidemiology, Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia; 2Emergency Unit, Dr.
Habib H, Sudaryo MK
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcrowding as a possible risk factor for inpatient suicide in a South African psychiatric hospital

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
About 4% of all suicides are estimated to occur while being an inpatient in a psychiatric facility. Staff generally assume that an inpatient suicide reflects a failure on their part to recognise the patient’s suicidal intent and whether it could have ...
Christoffel Grobler   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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