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- For patients, studies have found that ED crowding is correlated with discomfort, reduced privacy, treatment delays, and higher risk of prolonged disease and death. ED crowding also leads to increased violence toward staff, greater clinician and nurse turnover, and high rates of burnout.
news.yale.edu/2022/09/30/emergency-department-crowding-hits-crisis-levels-risking-patient-safetyEmergency department crowding hits crisis levels, risking ...
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Apr 1, 2024 · NHS data for England shows more than 1.5 million patients waited 12 hours or more in major emergency departments in 2023, of which around one million were waiting to be admitted to a...
Apr 1, 2024 · NHS data for England shows more than 1.5 million patients waited 12 hours or more in major emergency departments in 2023, of which around one million were waiting to be admitted to a...
Mar 13, 2024 · Boarding—or waiting in the ER for a bed after admission—is a worsening problem in hospitals. Solutions exist but many hospitals are not addressing the issue.
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Jan 24, 2022 · Before the Omicron variant began to spread more widely, hospital beds in the UK were already nearing capacity, with a record 6 million people on hospital waiting lists. With the arrival of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, patients with serious ailments sometimes wait five days to get admitted to the ER.
Conclusions Delays to hospital inpatient admission for patients in excess of 5 hours from time of arrival at the ED are associated with an increase in all-cause 30-day mortality. Between 5 and 12 hours, delays cause a predictable dose–response effect.
Apr 1, 2024 · More than 250 patients a week may have died needlessly in England last year due to very long waits in A&E for a hospital bed, new estimates suggest.
In a full hospital, with 100% bed occupancy, the proportion of patients waiting over 4 hours in an ED was 9 percentage points higher than at an 85% occupancy level. Higher numbers of long-stay admitted patients were independently associated with longer ED waits, potentially due to reduced bed flexibility.
