Pediatric Patients in Acute Mental Health Crisis Face Long Waits
Pediatric mental health boarding in the ED is a growing crisis. Understand the multifactorial causes and emerging solutions for these vulnerable patients.
Overcrowding
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Pediatric Patients in Acute Mental Health Crisis Face Long Waits
Pediatric mental health boarding in the ED is a growing crisis. Understand the multifactorial causes and emerging solutions for these vulnerable patients. -
Opinion: Demand Up, Beds Down—The Emergency Dept. Crowding Crisis
Hospital occupancy demands are projected to substantially increase over the next seven years from 75 percent to... -
Strategies to Reduce Ambulance Patient Offload Delays
As emergency departments (EDs) have become the focus of bottlenecks in the entire health care system—from insufficient...
Opinion: Demand Up, Beds Down—The Emergency Dept. Crowding Crisis
Hospital occupancy demands are projected to substantially increase over the next seven years from 75 percent to…
Strategies to Reduce Ambulance Patient Offload Delays
As emergency departments (EDs) have become the focus of bottlenecks in the entire health care system—from insufficient…
Readers Respond: Antifreeze Poisoning Tests, Hemoptysis Suggestions, & More
Re: ‘Toxicology Answer: An Illustrated Case of Ethylene Glycol, Direct and Indirect’ On behalf of my colleagues…
A Sobering Year for Emergency Departments and Their Patients
The Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) is a membership organization composed of high-performance emergency departments (EDs) that…
An Actionable, Visual Dashboard Approach to Boarding
Boarding has reached crisis levels across the United States, recently culminating in a letter from ACEP and…
Reader Feedback: EDs Can’t Fix Overcrowding Alone
[In response to “ED Overcrowding ” by Anton Helman, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP (Nov. 2019)], the case of…
How to Solve Emergency Department Overcrowding
Eleven years ago, a 45-year-old aboriginal double-amputee named Brian Sinclair was found dead by ED staff in…