Addressing overcrowding in an emergency department: an approach for identifying and treating influential factors and a real-life application

ConclusionsIt is expected that, by taking all the above factors into consideration, emergency departments efficiency can be improved. The algorithm constructed here allows the choice of the most cost-effective factors to be improved, subject to a given budget. We have been able to derive practical recommendations that emergency departments managers might use to limit crowding and patient length-of-stay.
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research