Emergency department patient flow: The influence of hospital census variables on emergency department length of stay

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 597-602

  Lucas, Ray ^a   Farley, Heather ^b   Twanmoh, Joseph ^c   Urumov, Andrej ^d   Olsen, Nils ^a   Evans, Bruce ^e   Kabiri, Hamed ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Length of stay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

COHORT STUDIES; CROWDING; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650246653     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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