Capacity-related interfacility patient transports: Patients affected, wait times involved and associated morbidity

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 262-268

  Stolte, Esther ^a   Iwanow, Rod ^b   Hall, Christine ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CALGARY HEALTH REGION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity; Interfacility transfer

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33749317985     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500013816     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. Presentation to the Commission of the Future Health Care in Canada (Romanow Commission). Calgary: 2002. Available: www.caep.ca/002.policies/002-04.romanow/ 002-04.Romanow-Taylor.Apr2002.pdf (accessed 2006 May 24).
2. Koppenberg J, Taeger K. Interhospital transport: transport of critically ill patients. Curr Opin Anaesthsiol 2002;15:211-5.
3. Gordon F. Shift work for specialist registrars in acute medicine: more questions than solutions. Clin Med 2002;2:41-2.
4. Nathens AB, Maier RV, Brundage SI, et al., The effect of interfacility transfer on outcome in an urban trauma system. J Trauma 2003;55(3):444-9.
5. Sobie JM, Gaves D, Tringali A. ED "hold" patients: Is their care also being held? J Emerg Nurs 2000;26:549-53.
6. Andrulis DP, Kellermann A, Hintz EA, et al. Emergency departments and crowding in United States teaching hospitals. Ann Emerg Med 1991;20:980-6.
7. Meehan TP, Fine MJ, Krumholz HM, et al. Quality of care, process, and outcomes in elderly patients with pneumonia. JAMA 1997;278:2080-4.
8. McGarvey RN, Harper JJ. Pneumonia mortality reduction and quality improvement in a community hospital, QRB Qual Rev Bull 1993;19:124-30.
9. Walker AF. The legal duty of physicians and hospitals to provide emergency care [review]. CMAJ 2002;166:465-9.
10. Yoon P, Steiner I, Reinhardt G. Analysis of factors influencing length of stay in the emergency department. Can J Emerg Med 2003;5(3):155-61.
11. Bates DW, Boyle DL, Vander Vliet MB, et al. Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events. J Gen Intern Med 1995;10:199-205.
12. Nettleman MD, Bock MJ. The epidemiology of missed medication doses in hospitalized patients. Clin Perform Qual Health Care 1996;4:148-53.