crowding – Emergency Medicine Ireland

Exit Block: What it is and why it’s dangerous.

9 Sep

This a great video from the college on the significance of exit block and the effects it’s having on our patients and staff. This, along with the recruitment crisis is, I think the biggest issue facing emergency medicine in both … Read More »

Association between waiting times and short term mortality and hospital admission after departure from emergency department: population based cohort study from Ontario, Canada BMJ 2011;342:d2983

21 Jul

There’s a lot of developing stuff out there that waiting times are bad, not just for patient experiences but also for clinical outcomes. METHODS These guys took a big Canadian database and looked at it to see what happened. The … Read More »