The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments

By P. Sprivulis, J. Da Silva, I. Jacobs, G. Jelinek, A. Frazer. Medical Journal of Australia, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Emergency Medicine

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• The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes. (2009, background): “2, respectively.(10) The adverse effect on mortality occurred when midnight hospital occupancy exceeded the 99th percentile distribution or when >20% 2 Bernstein et al.”
• Systematic review of emergency department crowding: causes, effects, and solutions. (2008, background): “Another study associated a combined measure of hospital and ED crowding with an increased risk of mortality at 2, 7, and 30 days after hospital admission.(54) In Houston, a statistically insignificant trend was found for higher mortality among trauma patients who were admitted during ambulance diver”