The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of ED waiting room patients, why they chose to come to the ED, why they wait for ED services, and what triage nurses and the Calgary Health Region (CHR) can do to enhance the waiting room experience, environment and safety ...
The Accumulating Priority Queue discipline has been used to evaluate the wait times. • The necessary algorithms to assess the performance numerically are presented. • The approach is applied to an Emergency Department in Southern Ontario. • Two Rules of Thumb for priority accumulation have be...
Internationally, much attention has been focused on long wait times in emergency departments (EDs) and the inaccessibility of acute inpatient hospital beds. Inpatient overcapacity and the overutilization of emergency facilities as primary care centers are thought by some to be a driving force behind E...
Is the calgary syncope symptom score a useful tool for vasovagal syncope diagnosis in the emergency room?V., Exposito GarciaF., Rodriguez EntemS., Gonzalez EnriquezB., ArnaezJ.M., Gomez DelgadoI., OlavarriP., LerenaJ.J., Olalla Antolin...
Unknown Illness Prompts Partial Shutdown of Calgary Hospital Emergency RoomIllness prompts partial shutdown of hospital ER--CALGARY - A patient with a potentially...Graveland, Bill