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The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions
Emergency Department overcrowding with admitted inpatients is a common international occurrence. We undertook a retrospective review to compare patient admission rates from patients presenting to our Emergency Department with the level of overcrowding with admitted inpatients on that particular day...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-201780 |
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author | Fogarty, Eoin M Cummins, Fergal |
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description | Emergency Department overcrowding with admitted inpatients is a common international occurrence. We undertook a retrospective review to compare patient admission rates from patients presenting to our Emergency Department with the level of overcrowding with admitted inpatients on that particular day in the Emergency Department. Over the 2-year study period there was no change in the rate or absolute number of admissions per day compared with the level of inpatient overcrowding. |
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spelling | pubmed-37565092013-08-30 The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions Fogarty, Eoin M Cummins, Fergal Emerg Med J Short Report Emergency Department overcrowding with admitted inpatients is a common international occurrence. We undertook a retrospective review to compare patient admission rates from patients presenting to our Emergency Department with the level of overcrowding with admitted inpatients on that particular day in the Emergency Department. Over the 2-year study period there was no change in the rate or absolute number of admissions per day compared with the level of inpatient overcrowding. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-09 2012-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3756509/ /pubmed/23073760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-201780 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Short Report Fogarty, Eoin M Cummins, Fergal The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title | The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title_full | The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title_fullStr | The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title_short | The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
title_sort | effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3756509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-201780 |
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