Collection
Emergency Department Crowding and Patient Flow
Emergency Departments (EDs) across the globe continue to operate at over-capacity due to boarding, crowded space and staffing constraints. Crowded EDs represent a public health emergency as they cause preventable patient deaths or poor outcomes. The factors contributing to overcrowding and access block are complex and multi-faceted which requires a persistent and coordinated response.
This collection will highlight innovation and novel perspectives in addressing this important global health problem.
The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general. Additionally, if the guest editor(s) authors an article in their special issue, they will not handle the peer review process.
Editors
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Eddy Lang
Dr. Lang is the Department Head for Emergency Medicine in Calgary, responsible for 4 sites seeing 300K visits annually by 250 faculty emergency physicians. Dr. Lang is a Deputy Editor of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and co-chaired the IFEM Task Force Report on ED Crowding and Access Block.
Articles (19 in this collection)
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Community healthcare appointments as an alternative to emergency department assessment: an exploration of family acceptability and preferences
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Machine learning to identify attributes that predict patients who leave without being seen in a pediatric emergency department
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The impact of alternate level of care on access block and operational strategies to reduce emergency wait times: a multi-center simulation study
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The association between paramedic service system hospital offload time and response time
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Emergency department crowding negatively influences outcomes for adults presenting for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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A comparative evaluation of the strengths of association between different emergency department crowding metrics and repeat visits within 72 hours
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Emergency department occupancy is useful as a simple real-time measure of crowding
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
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