title: Rethinking our pressure-packed emergency departments.
abstract: With overcrowding the single-most difficult issue now confronting emergency departments, innovative hospitals are experimenting with everything from new technology to redeploying staff to redesigning processes and work areas.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haugh
mesh_terms: D003441:Crowding; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload