Impact of critical bed status on emergency department patient flow and overcrowding

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 382-385

  Liu, Stephen ^a,b   Hobgood, Cherri ^b   Brice, Jane H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency departments; Overcrowding; Patient flow; Wait times

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BED OCCUPANCY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRIAGE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0037390680     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.4.382     Document Type: Article

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