doi: 10.1155/2012/838610.
Epub 2012 Feb 7.
Emergency department crowding: time for interventions and policy evaluations
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Emergency department crowding: time for interventions and policy evaluations
Emerg Med Int.
2012.
Abstract
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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