The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-81

  Mills, Angela M ^a   Baumann, Brigitte M ^b   Chen, Esther H ^c   Zhang, Ke You ^a   Glaspey, Lindsey J ^b   Hollander, Judd E ^a   Pines, Jesse M ^d,e  

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

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Crowding; Emergency department; Overcrowding; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 76249106976     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.01.2101     Document Type: Article

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