A review on ambulance offload delay literature

M Li, P Vanberkel, AJE Carter - Health care management science, 2019 - Springer
Ambulance offload delay (AOD) occurs when care of incoming ambulance patients cannot
be transferred immediately from paramedics to staff in a hospital emergency department …

Concepts, antecedents and consequences of ambulance ramping in the emergency department: a scoping review

C Kingswell, RZ Shaban, J Crilly - Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Patients arriving at the Emergency Department (ED) via ambulance can
experience a delay in receiving definitive care. In Australia, this phenomenon is referred to …

Aiming to be NEAT: safely improving and sustaining access to emergency care in a tertiary referral hospital

CM Sullivan, A Staib, J Flores, L Aggarwal… - Australian Health …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Objective To implement and evaluate strategies for improving access to emergency
department (ED) care in a tertiary hospital. Methods A retrospective pre–post intervention …

Ambulance diversion and ED destination by race/ethnicity: evaluation of Massachusetts' ambulance diversion ban

AD Hanchate, WE Baker, MK Paasche-Orlow… - BMC Health Services …, 2022 - Springer
Background The impact of ambulance diversion on potentially diverted patients, particularly
racial/ethnic minority patients, is largely unknown. Treating Massachusetts' 2009 ambulance …

Ethics of ambulance diversion

JM Geiderman, CA Marco, JC Moskop, J Adams… - The American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ambulance diversion is a common and controversial method used by emergency
departments (EDs) to reduce stress on individual departments and providers and relieve …

The association between emergency department crowding and the disposition of patients with transient ischemic attack or minor stroke

M Ben‐Yakov, MK Kapral, J Fang, S Li… - Academic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Emergency department (ED) crowding has been associated with adverse
events, including short‐term death and hospitalization among discharged patients. The …

The first single responders in Sweden–Evaluation of a pre-hospital single staffed unit

E Carlström, L Fredén - International emergency nursing, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Single responder (SR) systems have been implemented in several countries.
When the very first SR system in Sweden was planned, it was criticised because of concerns …

Hospital Boarding Crises: The Impact of Urgent vs. Prevention Responses on Length of Stay

T Adepoju, AL Carson, HS Jin… - Management …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Healthcare policy makers use wait-time metrics to encourage hospital managers to improve
patient experience. In 2002, Massachusetts mandated that hospital managers develop …

Ambulance diversions following public hospital emergency department closures

C Hsuan, RY Hsia, JR Horwitz, NA Ponce… - Health services …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine whether hospitals are more likely to temporarily close their emergency
departments (ED s) to ambulances (through ambulance diversions) if neighboring diverting …

Challenges and perceived impacts of ambulance diversions during emergency department overcrowding: a multi-stakeholder study

KA Rao, EYQ Wee, A Oh, D Mao Ren Hao… - Prehospital …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES Ambulance diversion has emerged as a strategy to address
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding, but the question of when or whether diversion …