ArticleEmergency medicine international2012
Emergency department crowding: time for interventions and policy evaluations.
Article in Emergency medicine international, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Methodological Approaches to Support Process Improvement in Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions to alleviate emergency department crowding by older adults: a systematic review.BMC emergency medicine · 2019Pooled it
- The cost-effectiveness of upfront point-of-care testing in the emergency department: a secondary analysis of a randomised, controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2019Trial
- Predicting Emergency Department Patient Arrivals at Hospitals Using Machine Learning Techniques.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The association between long emergency department stays and inpatient length of stay: a retrospective cohort study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Association between emergency department bed occupancy rate and in-hospital cardiac arrest in the emergency department: a retrospective study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
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- Quality of Professional Life and Empathy of Healthcare Workers in an Emergency Department of General Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2025Article
- Emergency department overcrowding and its associated factors at HARME medical emergency center in Eastern Ethiopia.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2024Article
- Emergency department crowding increases 10-day mortality for non-critical patients: a retrospective observational study.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Observational
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- Qualitative study on the use of emergency services by people with serious mental disorder in Spain.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Access block and overcrowding at the emergency department at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in Samoa.International journal of emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Improved prehospital triage for acute cardiac care: results from HART-c, a multicentre prospective study.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2023Article
- Mobile health vs. standard care after cardiac surgery: results of The Box 2.0 study.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2023Observational
- Nurses' perception of emergency department overcrowding: A qualitative study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Article
- Impact of the 24-hour time target policy for emergency departments in South Korea: a mixed method study in a single medical center.BMC health services research · 2022Observational
- Modelling Granular Process Flow Information to Reduce Bottlenecks in the Emergency Department.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Patients' perspectives on point-of-care diagnostics and treatment by emergency medical technicians in acute COPD exacerbations: A qualitative study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding. It provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency department crowding. We discuss the multiple causes of crowding and present an up-to-date literature review of the interventions that reduce the adverse consequences of crowding. We consider interventions at the level of an individual hospital and a policy level.
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