An Independent Evaluation of Four Quantitative Emergency Department Crowding Scales

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1204-1211

  Jones, Spencer S ^a   Allen, Todd L ^a   Flottemesch, Thomas J ^a   Welch, Shari J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ED crowding; overcrowding; scales

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAPPA STATISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CROWDING; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33751028577     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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