Emergency department (ED) crowding, sometimes referred to as overcrowding, has been
identified as a barrier to timely and efficient care dating back to the 1980s. 1 Despite …

Study objective: This is a pilot study designed to assess the feasibility of a point prevalence
study to assess the degree of crowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs). In …

Abstract Crowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) has emerged as a global public health
crisis. Current literature has identified causes and the potential harms of crowding in recent …

Crowding is an increasingly common occurrence in hospital-based emergency departments
(EDs) across the globe. This 2-article series offers an ethical and policy analysis of ED …

Over the past decade, emergency department (ED) crowding has occurred and progressed.
It has become a major topic of discussion at emergency medicine (EM) conferences, such as …

Overcrowding with associated delays in patient care is a problem faced by emergency
departments (EDs) worldwide. ED overcrowding can be the result of poor ED department …

Emergency department (ED) crowding is an established public health concern that has
received a great deal of attention in both the scientific literature and the lay press. 1-4 There …

This paper summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding. It provides a
comparison of the scales used to measure emergency department crowding. We discuss the …

Background Emergency department (ED) crowding is a significant international problem.
There is increasing overseas research into this field. In the UK, the focus has been on …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 1358–1370© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract The maturation of emergency medicine (EM) as a …