Development of a novel measure of overcrowding in a pediatric emergency department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 641-645

  Weiss, Steven J ^a,e   Ernst, Amy A ^a   Sills, Marion R ^b   Quinn, Bruce J ^c   Johnson, Ashira ^c   Nick, Todd G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

ED management; Overcrowding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROWDING; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDITY; WAITING ROOM;

CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34548759721     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31814a69e2     Document Type: Article

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