Crowding Delays Treatment and Lengthens Emergency Department Length of Stay, Even Among High-Acuity Patients

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  McCarthy, Melissa L ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^b   Ding, Ru ^a   Levin, Scott R ^a   Desmond, Jeffrey S ^c   Lee, Jennifer ^d   Aronsky, Dominik ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROWDING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THERAPY DELAY;

EID: 70349100074     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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