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Emergency department crowding: time for interventions and policy evaluations.


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Authors

Boyle, Adrian 
Beniuk, Kathleen 
Higginson, Ian 
Atkinson, Paul 

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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32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3202 Clinical Sciences, Clinical Research, Patient Safety, Health Services, Emergency Care, Generic health relevance

Journal Title

Emerg Med Int

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Journal ISSN

2090-2840
2090-2859

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Publisher

Hindawi Limited