Healthcare services are facing challenges in increasing their efficiency, quality of care, and
coping with surges in demand. To this end, some hospitals have implemented lean …

This article presents the state of the art of Lean principles applied in Emergency
Departments through a systematic literature review. Our article extends previous work found …

The most commonly used techniques for addressing each Emergency Department (ED)
problem (overcrowding, prolonged waiting time, extended length of stay, excessive patient …

Background Prolonged length of stay at the emergency department interferes with the main
goal of emergency care and results in adverse patient outcomes like nosocomial infection …

Background and Objectives: Ultrasonography is useful in evaluating patients with renal colic
and it has high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing ureter stones by revealing …

Background As part of the national COVID-19 preparedness efforts in Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia to overcome the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency rooms'(ERs) health …

Background During a 6-year period, several process changes were introduced at the
emergency department (ED) to decrease crowding, such as the implementation of a general …

Résumé La saturation de la structure des urgences (SU) est un tueur silencieux. En effet,
plusieurs auteurs dans différents pays ont décrit une augmentation de la mortalité, une …

Introduction Crowding in the emergency department is a problem worldwide that can affect
patient safety and clinical outcomes. The aim of this project was to evaluate a multimodal …

Purpose The healthcare system has been under pressure to provide timely and quality
healthcare. The influx of patients in the emergency departments (EDs) is testing the capacity …