Workload management in A&E: Counting the uncountable and predicting the unpredictable

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 88-91

  Taylor, C J ^a,b   Bull, F ^a   Burdis, C ^a   Ferguson, D G ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency department; Workload management

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; PREDICTION; WORKLOAD;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030988078     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.2.88     Document Type: Article

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