- ►bmj.com [PDF] DM Fatovich, Y Nagree, P Sprivulis - British Medical Journal, 2005 - emj.bmj.com Page 1. doi:10.1136/emj.2004.018002 2005;22;351-354 Emerg. Med. J. DM Fatovich,
Y Nagree and P Sprivulis Western Australia overcrowding ... Cited by 62 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►bmj.com DM Fatovich, RL Hirsch - British Medical Journal, 2003 - emj.bmj.com Results: From 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2001, there were 141 episodes of ambulance
bypass (mean duration 187 min, range 35–995). Monday was the most common day
with 39 (28%) episodes. Entry block alone was the most common reason bypass ... Cited by 58 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
PC Sprivulis, J Da Silva, IG Jacobs, ARL … - Medical Journal of Australia, 2006 - mja.com.au The Emergency Care, Hospitalisation and Outcome Study (ECHO) Western Australia's
population at 30 June 2001 was 1.9 million, with 1.4 million people (77%)
residing in metropolitan Perth.14 Perth has seven public and three private ... Cited by 95 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 6 versions
MJ Schull, K Lazier, M Vermeulen, MS BNSc, … - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2003 - emergencymedicine.utoronto.ca From the Clinical Epidemiology Unit and the Department of Emergency Services,
Sunny- brook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada (Schull, Morrison); the Prehospital Research Group, Toronto ... Cited by 83 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 12 versions
T HAS - The Medical Journal of Australia, 2003 - mja.com.au THERE HAS BEEN considerable public- ity recently about access block and its
effect on patient care. Access block appears endemic,1 with institutions across
Australia reporting various strat- egies to counter the problem and its ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 8 versions
U Hwang, J Concato - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2004 - saem.org Abstract Objectives: To examine how emergency department (ED) overcrowding has
been defined in the medical literature. Methods: Using the National Library of
Medicine's PubMed and MEDLINE databases (1966 to 2002), a comprehensive ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 6 versions
DB Richardson - Medical Journal of Australia, 2002 - mja.com.au “ACCESS BLOCK” refers to the situa- tion where patients requiring emer-
gency hospital admission spend an unreasonable amount of time in an emergency
department (ED) because they are unable to gain access to appro- priate ... Cited by 60 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 7 versions
DB Richardson - Medical Journal of Australia, 2006 - mja.com.au • Time of day: ED occupancy usually peaks in the evening, absolute mortality
(deaths per shift) during the day, and relative mortality (deaths per
presentation) overnight. • Inter-hospital transfer: Tertiary centres in ... Cited by 82 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 7 versions
BH Rowe, P Channan, M Bullard, S Blitz, LD … - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2006 - Elsevier OBJECTIVES: Patients leaving the emergency department (ED) without being seen
(LWBS) by a physician have become a growing concern in overcrowded EDs. The
purpose of this study was to determine the acuity level, reasons, and ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - All 6 versions
AJ Forster, I Stiell, G Wells, AJ Lee, C van … - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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