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Crowding in the Emergency Department: Challenges and Best Practices for the Care of Children by Toni K. Gross; Natalie E. Lane; Nathan L. Timm; Gregory P. Conners; Jennifer Hoffmann; Benson Hsu; Lois Lee; Jennifer Marin; Suzan Mazor; Ronald Paul; Mohsen Saidinejad; Muhammad Waseem; Mark Cicero; Paul Ishimine; Andrew Eisenberg; Mary Fallat; Patricia Fanflik; Cynthia Wright Johnson; Sara Kinsman; Cynthiana Lightfoot; Charles Macias; Katherine Remick; Sam Shahid; Elizabeth Stone; Joseph Wright; James Callahan; Javier Gonzalez del Rey; Madeline Joseph; Elizabeth Mack; Ann Dietrich; Brian Moore; Diane Pilkey; Mohsen Saidinejad; Sally Snow; Sue Tellez is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Emergency department (ED) crowding has been and continues to be a national concern. ED crowding is defined as a situation in which the identified need for emergency services outstrips available resources in the ED. Crowding is associated with higher morbidity and mortality, delayed pain control, delayed time to administration of antibiotics, increased medical errors, and less-than-optimal health care. ED crowding impedes a hospital’s ability to achieve national quality and patient safety goals, diminishes the effectiveness of the health care safety net, and limits the capacity of hospitals to respond to a disaster and/or sudden surge in disease. Both children and adults seeking care in emergency settings are placed at risk. Crowding negatively influences the experience for patients, families, and providers, and can impact employee turnover and well-being. No single factor is implicated in creating the issue of crowding, but elements that influence crowding can be divided into those that affect input (prehospital and outpatient care), throughput (ED), and output (hospital and outpatient care). The degree of ED crowding is difficult to quantify but has been linked to markers such as

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Author

Toni K. Gross; Natalie E. Lane; Nathan L. Timm; Gregory P. Conners; Jennifer Hoffmann; Benson Hsu; Lois Lee; Jennifer Marin; Suzan Mazor; Ronald Paul; Mohsen Saidinejad; Muhammad Waseem; Mark Cicero; Paul Ishimine; Andrew Eisenberg; Mary Fallat; Patricia Fanflik; Cynthia Wright Johnson; Sara Kinsman; Cynthiana Lightfoot; Charles Macias; Katherine Remick; Sam Shahid; Elizabeth Stone; Joseph Wright; James Callahan; Javier Gonzalez del Rey; Madeline Joseph; Elizabeth Mack; Ann Dietrich; Brian Moore; Diane Pilkey; Mohsen Saidinejad; Sally Snow; Sue Tellez

Publisher

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)