The effect of admitted patients in the emergency department on rates of hospital admissions.
Emergency Department overcrowding with admitted inpatients is a common international occurrence. We undertook a retrospective review to compare patient admission rates from patients presenting to our Emergency Department with the level of overcrowding with admitted inpatients on that particular day in the Emergency Department. Over the 2-year study period there was no change in the rate or absolute number of admissions per day compared with the level of inpatient overcrowding.
REDSPoT, Emergency Department, University of Limerick Hospital, Limerick, Ireland. eoinmfogarty@yahoo.com
Eoin M
EM
Fogarty
Fergal
F
Cummins
D003441:Crowding; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies