Overcrowding in emergency department: causes, consequences, and solutions—a narrative review

M Sartini, A Carbone, A Demartini, L Giribone, M Oliva… - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
Overcrowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) is a phenomenon that is now widespread
globally and causes a significant negative impact that goes on to affect the entire hospital …

Job demands and resources among healthcare professionals during virus pandemics: A review and examination of fluctuations in mental health strain during COVID …

TW Britt, ML Shuffler, RL Pegram, P Xoxakos… - Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present article examines how job demands and resources are related to indices of
strain among healthcare professionals during virus pandemics. The article also presents the …

Emergency department crowding: the canary in the health care system

GD Kelen, R Wolfe, G D'Onofrio, AM Mills… - … Innovations in Care …, 2021 - catalyst.nejm.org
The solution for this serious threat to ED staff and harm to patients cannot come from a
single department, but through engagement of and ongoing commitment by leaders …

[PDF][PDF] Why health-care workers are quitting in droves

E Yong - The Atlantic, 2021 - alamedahealthsystem.org
Last December, at the height of the winter surge, she cared for a patient who had caught the
coronavirus after being pressured into a anksgiving dinner. eir lungs were so ruined that …

Forecasting emergency department hourly occupancy using time series analysis

Q Cheng, NT Argon, CS Evans, Y Liu… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study objective To develop a novel predictive model for emergency department (ED) hourly
occupancy using readily available data at time of prediction with a time series analysis …

Machine learning-based suggestion for critical interventions in the management of potentially severe conditioned patients in emergency department triage

H Chang, JY Yu, S Yoon, T Kim, WC Cha - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Providing timely intervention to critically ill patients is a challenging task in emergency
departments (ED). Our study aimed to predict early critical interventions (CrIs), which can be …

Association of emergency department crowding with inpatient outcomes

C Hsuan, JE Segel, RY Hsia, Y Wang… - Health Services …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine the association of higher emergency department (ED) census with
inpatient outcomes on the day of discharge (inpatient length of stay, in‐hospital mortality, ED …

The effect of overcrowding in emergency departments on the admission rate according to the emergency triage level

HM Jung, MJ Kim, JH Kim, YS Park, HS Chung… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Overcrowding in emergency departments is a serious public health issue. Recent studies
have reported that overcrowding in emergency departments affects not only the quality of …

A novel data-driven patient and medical waste queueing-inventory system under pandemic: A real-life case study

M Rahiminia, S Shahrabifarahani… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
It is necessary to control patient congestion in medical centers during pandemics where
medical demand grows rapidly. Also, managing generated medical waste is critical since …

Who is next: Patient prioritization under emergency department blocking

W Li, Z Sun, LJ Hong - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Upon arrival at emergency departments (EDs), patients are classified into different triage
levels indicating their urgency. Using data from a large hospital in Canada, we find that …