The Effect of Emergency Department Expansion on Emergency Department Overcrowding

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 338-343

  Han, Jin H ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   France, Daniel J ^a   Zhong, Sheng ^a   Jones, Ian ^a   Storrow, Alan B ^a   Aronsky, Dominik ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ambulance diversion; emergency department overcrowding; expansion; length of stay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBULANCES; BED OCCUPANCY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947513928     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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