Emergency Department Crowding: Time for Interventions and Policy Evaluations

Emergency Department Crowding: Time for Interventions and Policy Evaluations

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 consequen...

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Main Authors: Adrian Boyle, Kathleen Beniuk, Ian Higginson, Paul Atkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Emergency Medicine International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/838610

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