Introduction: The Emergency Department (ED) is the hospital’s main gateway, as well initial site for diagnosis and emergency medical care. In recent years, ED overcrowding worsening in Israel world-wide. Overcrowding has been shown to adversely affect patient service care, fostering caregiver dissatisfaction, lowering quality of care even increasing mortality. A driver boarding due limited inpa...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been the largest public health emergency in recent decades. While there have many epidemiology studies on this pandemic, less research done to examine its indirect impact mortality. This paper utilizes Kolmogorov-Zurbenko (KZ) filter chronic kidney (CKD) mortality trend Florida hospitals and finds an of namely excess CKD deaths due pandemic-period...