Reducing overcrowding in an emergency department: a pilot study.

Fábio Ferreira Amorim Karlo Jozefo Quadros de Almeida Sanderson Cesar Macedo Barbalho Vanessa de Amorim Teixeira Baliero Arnaldo Machado Neto Guilherme de Freitas Dias Levy Aniceto Santana Cristhiane Pinheiro Teixeira Gico de Aguiar Cláudia Cardoso Gomes da Silva Sriram Dasu

Published in: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) (2020)

Waiting times can be reduced by balancing the allocation of doctors to green and yellow patients and matching the availability of doctors to forecasted demand patterns. Simulations of EDs' can be used to generate and test solutions to decrease overcrowding.

Keyphrases

emergency department
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
medical students
patient reported