Emergency Department Waiting Times in an Israeli Children’s Hospital During Times of Military Conflict

queuing theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department

Queuing Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department

Regarding the article: Application of queuing theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department: Does it make sense? published in Archives of Trauma Research (1), I would like to make some comments. Although results of the study by Alavi-Moghaddam et al. using queuing theory are particularly interesting to analyze the impact of a new strategy to reduce waiting times before implementing i...

Emergency Department waiting times in a tertiary children’s hospital in Israel: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess ethnic differences in Emergency Department (ED) waiting times between Jewish and Arab children in a tertiary childrens' hospital in Israel. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of all children who were admitted to the pediatric ED of the largest hospital in northern Israel, between January 2011 and December 2015. Univariate and multi...

using queuing theory and simulation modelling to reduce waiting times in an iranian emergency department

background: hospital emergencies have an essential role in health care systems. in the last decade, developed countries have paid great attention to overcrowding crisis in emergency departments. simulation analysis of complex models for which conditions will change over time is much more effective than analytical solutions and emergency department (ed) is one of the most complex models for anal...

waiting times in emergency department after using the emergency severity index triage tool

background hospital emergency departments (eds) are as barometers of the health care system. crowded eds threaten delivery of timely care. prolonged ed wait times reduce the quality of care and increase adverse and sometimes irreversible events. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the patients' waiting time at namazi and shahid faghihi hospitals in shiraz, iran. patients and m...