Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding

By D. Richardson. Medical Journal of Australia, 2006

840 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Effect of Emergency Department Crowding on Outcomes of Admitted Patients (2012, neutral): “6) Length of stay, days Mean (SD) † 5 ( 7) 5 ( 7) 5 ( 7) Median (IQR) 3 (2, 6) 3 (2, 6) 3 (2, 6) Costs, $ Mean (SD) † 12,787 (21,134) 13,089 (22,301) 12,710 (20,827) Median (IQR) 7,423 (4,378, 13,548) 7,410 (4,348, 13,678) 7,524 (4,386, 13,515) Covariates Age (SD), mean, y † 62.”
Systematic review of emergency department crowding: causes, effects, and solutions. (2008, background): “High occupancy in one Australian ED was estimated to cause 13 patient deaths per year.(53) 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.”
The effect of emergency department crowding on clinically oriented outcomes. (2009, background): “A retrospective, single-center Australian study attempted to quantify the association between ED crowding and 10-day mortality.(9) ED occupancy was measured in 8-hour intervals coinciding with staffing shifts and was calculated as the total number of patient care hours during the shift divided by 8 ”