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Emergency Department
Overcrowding: Is There a Solution?
Marc Y-R
Linares, M.D., Ryan Keller, M.D.
Abstract
Virtually all patients
who visit an emergency department in the United States are guaranteed one
thing: some sort of waiting period prior to seeing a physician. lucky 7 game online As emergency
departments across the country become more crowded yearly, patients become
more frustrated with lengthening waiting times, physicians and nurses strain
to increase throughput, administrators struggle to keep up with increasing
staffing demands, and health insurance agencies look for ways to keep health
care costs under control.
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Even more worrisome is the increased risk of poor patient outcomes that accompany crowded ED settings
(1). Furthermore, the problem is not an American phenomenon; European
(2,3), Australian
(4,5) and Chinese
(6) emergency departments face similar challenges.
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