Entropy: A conceptual approach to measuring situation-level workload within emergency care and its relationship to emergency department crowding

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 551-559

  Crane, Peter W ^a   Zhou, Yuan ^b   Sun, Yifan ^b   Lin, Li ^b   Schneider, Sandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

boarding; crowding; operations; process improvement; workload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROWDING (AREA); EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTROPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKLOAD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ACUITY; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UTILIZATION;

CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ACUITY; SELF REPORT; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84898601052     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2013.08.113     Document Type: Article

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