ReviewWorld journal of emergency medicine2011
Demand for hospital emergency departments: a conceptual understanding.
Review in World journal of emergency medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Why Do People Choose Emergency and Urgent Care Services? A Rapid Review Utilizing a Systematic Literature Search and Narrative Synthesis.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2017Pooled it
- A comparison of patient self-referrals and general practitioner referrals to the emergency department in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: secondary data analysis of the "Better Data, Better Planning" study.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Physiotherapy in Nigerian emergency departments: a national survey of physiotherapists' perceptions of practice.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Factors Influencing Non-urgent Emergency Department Visits: A Review of the Causes and Impact.Cureus · 2026Review
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- Clinical risk factors for unscheduled health care attendance for chronic pain management, and associated treatment costs.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Profile of Users and Adequacy of Hospital Emergency Services in Response to Healthcare Demand Among Population Aged 65 Years and over.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Predicting Inpatient Admissions From Emergency Department Triage Using Machine Learning: A Systematic Review.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2025Review
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- The Impact of Healthcare Pressures on the COVID-19 Hospitalisation Fatality Risk in England.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2024Observational
- Awareness of Urgent Care Services Among Primary Healthcare Center Patients in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2024Article
- Quality Indicators for Pediatric Bronchiolitis and Croup Care in the Emergency Department; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2024Review
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- Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning.EPJ data science · 2023Article
- Towards accurate prediction of patient length of stay at emergency department: a GAN-driven deep learning framework.Journal of ambient intelligence and humanized computing · 2022Article
- Emergency department utilisation among older adults-Protocol for a systematic review of determinants and conceptual frameworks.PloS one · 2022Article
- Awareness and utilization of urgent care services among patients attending Al-Wazarat PHCC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2020.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021Article
- The Pandemic's impacts on patients without Covid-19 on multidisciplinary aspects in emergency medicine care.Internal and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Preferences of Iranians to select the emergency department physician at the time of service delivery.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Forecasting emergency department overcrowding: A deep learning framework.Chaos, solitons, and fractals · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmergency departments (EDs) are critical to the management of acute illness and injury, and the provision of health system access. However, EDs have become increasingly congested due to increased demand, increased complexity of care and blocked access to ongoing care (access block). Congestion has clinical and organisational implications. This paper aims to describe the factors that appear to influence demand for ED services, and their interrelationships as the basis for further research into the role of private hospital EDs. DATA SOURCES: Multiple databases (PubMed, ProQuest, Academic Search Elite and Science Direct) and relevant journals were searched using terms related to EDs and emergency health needs. Literature pertaining to emergency department utilisation worldwide was identified, and articles selected for further examination on the basis of their relevance and significance to ED demand.
resultsFactors influencing ED demand can be categorized into those describing the health needs of the patients, those predisposing a patient to seeking help, and those relating to policy factors such as provision of services and insurance status. This paper describes the factors influencing ED presentations, and proposes a novel conceptual map of their interrelationship.
conclusionThis review has explored the factors contributing to the growing demand for ED care, the influence these factors have on ED demand, and their interrelationships depicted in the conceptual model.
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