Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is widespread in hospitals in many countries, causing severe consequences to patient outcomes, staff work and the system, with an overall increase in costs. Therefore, health managers are constantly looking for new preventive and corrective measures to counter this phenomenon. To do this, however, it is necessary to be able to characterize the problem objectively. For this reason, various indices are used in the literature to assess ED crowding. In this work, we explore the use of two of the most widespread crowding indices in an ED of an Italian national hospital, investigate their relationships and discuss their effectiveness.

A case study to investigate the impact of overcrowding indices in emergency departments / Improta, Giovanni; Majolo, Massimo; Raiola, Eliana; Russo, Giuseppe; Longo, Giuseppe; Triassi, Maria. - In: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE. - ISSN 1471-227X. - 22:1(2022), p. 143. [10.1186/s12873-022-00703-8]

A case study to investigate the impact of overcrowding indices in emergency departments

Improta, Giovanni;Raiola, Eliana;Triassi, Maria
2022

Abstract

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is widespread in hospitals in many countries, causing severe consequences to patient outcomes, staff work and the system, with an overall increase in costs. Therefore, health managers are constantly looking for new preventive and corrective measures to counter this phenomenon. To do this, however, it is necessary to be able to characterize the problem objectively. For this reason, various indices are used in the literature to assess ED crowding. In this work, we explore the use of two of the most widespread crowding indices in an ED of an Italian national hospital, investigate their relationships and discuss their effectiveness.
2022
A case study to investigate the impact of overcrowding indices in emergency departments / Improta, Giovanni; Majolo, Massimo; Raiola, Eliana; Russo, Giuseppe; Longo, Giuseppe; Triassi, Maria. - In: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE. - ISSN 1471-227X. - 22:1(2022), p. 143. [10.1186/s12873-022-00703-8]
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