National Emergency Department Overcrowding Study tool is not useful in an Australian emergency department

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 282-288

  Raj, Kamini ^a,b   Baker, Kylie ^a   Brierley, Stephan ^a   Murray, Duncan ^a  

^a IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian emergency department; Emergency department; National Emergency Department Overcrowding Study tool; Objective score; Overcrowding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD NURSE; KAPPA STATISTICS; MEDICAL STAFF; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VENTILATOR; WAITING ROOM;

AUSTRALIA; CROWDING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33646593511     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00854.x     Document Type: Article

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