Emergency Department Overcrowding: Analysis of the Factors of Renege Rate

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-162

  Asaro, Phillip V ^a   Lewis, Lawrence M ^a   Boxerman, Stuart B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bed occupancy; crowding; hospital emergency services; patient care; regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BED OCCUPANCY; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846514027     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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