Response to letter regarding article, "The impact of emergency department crowding upon early interventions and mortality in patients with severe sepsis."

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: david.gaieski@jefferson.edu.

Comment

Anish K Agarwal et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;35(10):1563.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2017.07.009. Epub 2017 Jul 12.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: david.gaieski@jefferson.edu.

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Comment on

The impact of ED crowding on early interventions and mortality in patients with severe sepsis.
Gaieski DF, Agarwal AK, Mikkelsen ME, Drumheller B, Cham Sante S, Shofer FS, Goyal M, Pines JM. Gaieski DF, et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Jul;35(7):953-960. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2017.01.061. Epub 2017 Jan 31. Am J Emerg Med. 2017. PMID: 28233644
The impact of emergency department crowding on outcomes, other aspects should not be ignored.
Zhou X, Zhang Z, Li J, Ye Y, Tang G, Ding B. Zhou X, et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Oct;35(10):1561-1562. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2017.07.010. Epub 2017 Jul 4. Am J Emerg Med. 2017. PMID: 28698132 No abstract available.