assigning residents of emergency medicine to screen patients before admission: a strategy to overcome overcrowding
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background: the overcrowded hospital is an unsafe one. overcrowding the emergency department (ed) results in increased patient suffering, prolonged waiting time, deteriorating level of service, and on occasion, a worsened medical condition or even death. objectives: this study proposes a strategy to overcome ed overcrowding. materials and methods: the proportion of acute area admitted patients to screened patients (a/s), and the proportion of patients who were finally transferred to inpatient wards (w/a) to those admitted in ed acute area were investigated during 6 consecutive months. emergency medicine residents were assigned to screen patients before ed admission and afterwards. results: the average a/s changed from 82.4% to 44.2% (p = 0.028), and the average w/a changed from 28.3% to 51.48% (p = 0.028) before and after screening patients respectively. the initiative resulted in 97 less patients in the acute area per day. conclusions: decreased number of acute area admitted patients, and increase w/a proportion showed that the initiative was successful in obviating ed overcrowding while provision of care to those most in need was not altered.
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Assigning Residents of Emergency Medicine to Screen Patients Before Admission: a Strategy to Overcome Overcrowding
BACKGROUND The overcrowded hospital is an unsafe one. Overcrowding the emergency department (ED) results in increased patient suffering, prolonged waiting time, deteriorating level of service, and on occasion, a worsened medical condition or even death. OBJECTIVES This study proposes a strategy to overcome ED overcrowding. MATERIALS AND METHODS The proportion of acute area admitted patients...
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