ObjectivesHousehold overcrowding is associated with adverse health outcomes, including increased risk of infectious diseases, mental problems, and poor educational attainment. We investigated inequalities in an urban, ethnically diverse, disadvantaged London population by pseudonymously linking electronic records (EHR) to Energy Performance Certificates (EPC) data.
 ApproachWe used pseudon...

of its high prevalence and its likely adverse effects on the health of employees and the quality of psychiatric care. Overcrowding in wards is another well-known problem in psychiatric hospitals worldwide resulting, in part, from the dramatic decline in psychiatric in-patient beds during past decades. It typically arises when there is shortage of beds in relation to need or when acute beds are ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the level of consensus among a group of Canadian emergency department (ED) experts on the importance of a set of indicators to document ED overcrowding. METHODS A 2-round Delphi survey was conducted from February 2005 to April 2005, with a multidisciplinary group of 38 Canadian experts in various aspects of ED operations who rated the relevance of 36 measures and ranked ...

BACKGROUND Over 90% of outpatient care in China was delivered at public hospitals, making outpatient experience in this setting an important aspect of quality of care. OBJECTIVE To assess outpatient experience with different aspects of physician services at China's public hospitals and its association with overcrowding of the hospital outpatient departments. RESEARCH DESIGN Retrospective an...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cause and mode of transmission of a cluster of infections due to Enterobacter cloacae. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective cohort study in a neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) from December 1996 to January 1997; environmental and laboratory investigations. SUBJECTS 60 infants hospitalized in the NICU during the outbreak period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Odds ratios (O...

Date of acceptance: 08-05-2014 Dear Mr. Editor: Those who live the work overload at Emergency Departments subjectively can determine if there is overcrowding or not. The creation of different saturation indices is intended to determine, based on facts, the degree of overcrowding, in order to start a series of actions and protocols to implement a strategic response to each “degree of alert”, suc...

mergency department (ED) overcrowding is the subject of intense study to evaluate its causes and consequences. However, although implied, there is little mention of the threat that overcrowding poses to patient dignity. This threat is intuitively obvious to health care providers and patients in the ED, yet it is elusive to prove, as there is neither a universally accepted definition of dignity ...