Type of facility influences lengths of stay of children presenting to high volume emergency departments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency department crowding may impact patient and provider outcomes. We describe emergency department crowding metrics based on presentations by children to different categories of high volume emergency departments in Alberta, Canada.

Methods

This population-based retrospective study extracted all presentations made by children (age < 18 years) during April 2010 to March 2015 to 15 high volume emergency departments: five regional, eight urban, and two academic/teaching. Time to physician initial assessment, and length of stay for discharges and admissions were calculated based on the start of presentation and emergency department facility. Multiple metrics, including the medians for hourly, facility-specific time to physician initial assessment and length of st

SUBMITTER: Rosychuk RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7604957 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature