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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Emergency Department 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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Integrating Participatory Modeling with Simulation Techniques for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Addressing Patient Flow and COVID-19 Challenges
… techniques to address two public health emergency challenges within the same healthcare system: emergency department crowding and COVID-19 responses. This dissertation highlights the feasibility and value of integrating participatory modeling with simulation techniques to engage …
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Machine learning methodologies for high dimensional biomedical & bioinformatics applications
… patient disposition in addressing the issue of emergency department crowding. For the second project on computer vision, we propose a novel implementation of the neural style transfer algorithm as an image preprocessing and registration method for skin lesion classification problems. For the …
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The Impact of Increased Number of Acute Care Beds to Reduce Emergency Room Wait Time
Reducing ED wait times is a top health care priority for the Ontario government and hospitals in Ontario are incentivised to meet provincial ED wait time targets. In this study, we considered the costs and benefits associated with increasing the number of acute-care beds to reduce the time an …