Forecasting Emergency Department Crowding: An External, Multicenter Evaluation

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hoot, Nathan R ^a   Epstein, Stephen K ^b   Allen, Todd L ^c   Jones, Spencer S ^d   Baumlin, Kevin M ^e   Chawla, Neal ^e   Lee, Anna T ^e   Pines, Jesse M ^f   Klair, Amandeep K ^f   Gordon, Bradley D ^g   Flottemesch, Thomas J ^g   LeBlanc, Larry J ^h   Jones, Ian ^a   Levin, Scott R ⁱ   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Gadd, Cynthia S ^a   Aronsky, Dominik ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BED OCCUPANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 70349159073     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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