Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2019
Impact of emergency department occupancy on waiting times, rates of admission and representation, and length of stay when hospitalised: A data linkage study.
To assess the association between ED occupancy and relevant outcomes including ED waiting times, rates of admission and representation and length of stay when hospitalised. ⋯ Higher ED occupancy was associated with increased waiting times conditional on triage category and baseline occupancy. Collectively, the results show that NSW principal referral EDs are robust, and are currently capable of handling variation in occupancy by prioritising treatment for the most urgent patients.