Waiting Times in a Tertiary Academic Hospital Emergency Department, Iran

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...

queuing theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department

What are we waiting for? Factors influencing completion times in an academic and peripheral emergency department.

BACKGROUND A long completion time in the Emergency Department (ED) is associated with higher morbidity and in-hospital mortality. A completion time of more than four hours is a frequently used cut-off point. Mostly, older and sicker patients exceed a completion time of four hours on the ED. The primary aim was to examine which factors currently contribute to overcrowding and a time to completio...

emergency department waiting time at alzahra hospital

introduction: emergency department is one of the most important hospital wards that offers emergency services to unstable patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. however, the way the services are offered reflects the general status of the hospital since patients with the most serious problems frequently refer to the emergency department. emergency department waiting time is one of the indices u...

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...