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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …