Emergency Department Crowding: Time for Interventions and Policy Evaluations

This paper summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding. It provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency department crowding. We discuss the multiple causes of crowding and present an up-to-date literature review of the interventions that reduce the adverse consequen...

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Autores principales: Boyle, Adrian, Beniuk, Kathleen, Higginson, Ian, Atkinson, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3290817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22454772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/838610
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description This paper summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding. It provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency department crowding. We discuss the multiple causes of crowding and present an up-to-date literature review of the interventions that reduce the adverse consequences of crowding. We consider interventions at the level of an individual hospital and a policy level.
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spelling pubmed-32908172012-03-27 Emergency Department Crowding: Time for Interventions and Policy Evaluations Boyle, Adrian Beniuk, Kathleen Higginson, Ian Atkinson, Paul Emerg Med Int Review Article This paper summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding. It provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency department crowding. We discuss the multiple causes of crowding and present an up-to-date literature review of the interventions that reduce the adverse consequences of crowding. We consider interventions at the level of an individual hospital and a policy level. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3290817/ /pubmed/22454772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/838610 Text en Copyright © 2012 Adrian Boyle et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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