Managing emergency department overcrowding.

Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 593 - 603
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Abstract
Emergency department (ED) crowding and ambulance diversion has been an increasingly significant national problem for more than a decade. More than 90% of hospital ED directors reported overcrowding as a problem resulting in patients in hallways, full occupancy of ED beds, and long waits, occurring several times a week. Overcrowding has many other potential detrimental effects including diversion of ambulances, frustration for patients and ED...
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Title
Managing emergency department overcrowding.
Published Date
Nov 1, 2009
Volume
27
Issue
4
Pages
593 - 603
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