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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"ED Crowding"”.
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Moral Implications of Emergency Department Crowding
Emergency Department (ED) crowding, defined as "an extreme volume of patients in ED treatment areas, forcing the ED to operate beyond its capacity" has become a public health crisis in the United States. ED crowding can lead to compromised care which threatens the moral values medicine has been …
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A Comparative Analysis of Two Low-Acuity Flow Processes in the Emergency Department
… begun implementing new patient flow processes aimed at improving ED throughput and limiting ED crowding. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two flow processes. </p><p> This was a retrospective quasi-experimental study designed to evaluate the impact of a Rapid Medical …
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Using prediction to facilitate patient flow in a health care delivery chain
… which patients flow. The Emergency Department (ED)/Inpatient Unit (IU) chain is an example chain, common to many hospitals. Recent literature has suggested that predictions of IU admission, when patients enter the ED, could be used to initiate IU bed preparations before the patient has completed …
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Improving Emergency Department Patient Flow Through Near Real-Time Analytics
… within hospital Emergency Departments (ED). Approaching from a systems engineering perspective, the study proposes a novel decision support framework for streamlining ED patient flow that employs machine learning, statistical and operations research methods to facilitate its …