title: Emergency departments post wait times on the web.
abstract: The two EDs of Sacred Heart Medical Center in Oregon have been posting their wait times online for several months now, but the introduction of this service didn't come without a great deal of preparation. For example: ED charge nurses at facilities that already had posted wait times online were contacted to see if there had been any problems. A communitywide education effort was put in place to let potential patients know what was coming.
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D014481:United States; D014850:Waiting Lists