Real-time forecasting of emergency department arrivals using prehospital data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a challenge globally. To counteract crowding in day-to-day operations, better tools to improve monitoring of the patient flow in the ED is needed. The objective of this study was the development of a continuously updated monitoring system to forecast emergency department (ED) arrivals on a short time-horizon incorporating data from prehospital services.

Methods

Time of notification and ED arrival was obtained for all 191,939 arrivals at the ED of a Norwegian university hospital from 2010 to 2018. An arrival notification was an automatically captured time stamp which indicated the first time the ED was notified of an arriving patient, typically by a call from an ambulance to the emergency service communication center. A Po

SUBMITTER: Asheim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6683581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature