Emergent Inpatient Admissions and Delayed Hospital Discharges

Emergency Department (ED) congestion can be better understood by examining overall system impacts, in particular inpatient admissions and discharges. This study first investigates trends of inpatient admissions, volume of patients in the ED who have been admitted (ED “boarders”), length of stay, an...

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Main Author: Wong, Hannah Jane
Other Authors: Sullivan, Pierre E.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32960