Interventions to improve consultations in the emergency department: A systematic review

B Voaklander, LA Gaudet, SW Kirkland… - Academic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Emergency department (ED) consultations with specialists are necessary for safe
and effective patient care. Delays in the ED consultation process, however, have been …

An analysis of WhatsApp usage for communication between consulting and emergency physicians

U Gulacti, U Lok, S Hatipoglu, H Polat - Journal of medical systems, 2016 - Springer
The aim of this study was to evaluate WhatsApp messenger usage for communication
between consulting and emergency physicians. A retrospective, observational study was …

Predicting length of stay among patients discharged from the emergency department—using an accelerated failure time model

CH Chaou, HH Chen, SH Chang, P Tang, SL Pan… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Emergency department (ED) crowding continues to be an important health care
issue in modern countries. Among the many crucial quality indicators for monitoring the …

Using data mining to predict emergency department length of stay greater than 4 hours: Derivation and single‐site validation of a decision tree algorithm

MA Rahman, B Honan, T Glanville… - Emergency Medicine …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Health services have an imperative to reduce prolonged patient length of stay
(LOS) in ED. Our objective is to develop and validate an accurate prediction model for …

Emergency department boarding: a descriptive analysis and measurement of impact on outcomes

L Salehi, P Phalpher, R Valani, C Meaney… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesDelays in transfer of admitted patients boarded in the emergency department (ED)
to an inpatient bed is a major driver of ED overcrowding. We sought to identify explanatory …

Analyzing factors affecting emergency department length of stay—using a competing risk-accelerated failure time model

CH Chaou, TF Chiu, AMF Yen, CJ Ng, HH Chen - Medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) is associated with ED crowding and
related complications. Previous studies either analyzed single patient disposition groups or …

Predicting patient length of stay in Australian emergency departments using Data Mining

SG Gurazada, S Gao, F Burstein, P Buntine - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Length of Stay (LOS) is an important performance metric in Australian Emergency
Departments (EDs). Recent evidence suggests that an LOS in excess of 4 h may be …

Analysis of factors influencing length of stay in the Emergency Department in public hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

HI Kusumawati, J Magarey, P Rasmussen - Australasian emergency care, 2019 - Elsevier
Backgrounds The increasing demand for emergency care may cause prolonged Emergency
Department length of stay that has an impact on quality of care. In Indonesia, factors …

Comparison of secure messaging application (WhatsApp) and standard telephone usage for consultations on Length of Stay in the ED

U Gulacti, U Lok - Applied clinical informatics, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Objective: Consultation, the process of an Emergency Physician seeking an opinion from
other specialties, occurs frequently in the Emergency Department (ED). The aim of this study …

Emergency department rotational patient assignment

SJ Traub, CF Stewart, R Didehban, AC Bartley… - Annals of emergency …, 2016 - Elsevier
Study objective We compare emergency department (ED) operational metrics obtained in
the first year of a rotational patient assignment system (in which patients are assigned to …