Emergency department overcrowding and ambulance turnaround time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lee, Yu Jin ^a,b   Shin, Sang Do ^a   Lee, Eui Jung ^a   Cho, Jin Seong ^a,c   Cha, Won Chul ^a,d  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Gachon University   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION; ARTICLE; CROWDING (AREA); EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; KOREA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; TURNAROUND TIME; AMBULANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

AMBULANCES; BED OCCUPANCY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEOUL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84938374999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130758     Document Type: Article

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