Measures of crowding in the emergency department: a systematic review

U Hwang, ML McCarthy, D Aronsky… - Academic …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 527–538© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Objectives: Despite consensus regarding the …

An overview of health forecasting

IN Soyiri, DD Reidpath - Environmental health and preventive medicine, 2013 - Springer
Health forecasting is a novel area of forecasting, and a valuable tool for predicting future
health events or situations such as demands for health services and healthcare needs. It …

Emergency department crowding: the canary in the health care system

GD Kelen, R Wolfe, G D'Onofrio, AM Mills… - … Innovations in Care …, 2021 - catalyst.nejm.org
The solution for this serious threat to ED staff and harm to patients cannot come from a
single department, but through engagement of and ongoing commitment by leaders …

[PDF][PDF] Why health-care workers are quitting in droves

E Yong - The Atlantic, 2021 - alamedahealthsystem.org
Last December, at the height of the winter surge, she cared for a patient who had caught the
coronavirus after being pressured into a anksgiving dinner. eir lungs were so ruined that …

Performance evaluation of Emergency Department patient arrivals forecasting models by including meteorological and calendar information: A comparative study

VK Sudarshan, M Brabrand, TM Range… - Computers in Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The volume of daily patient arrivals at Emergency Departments (EDs) is unpredictable and is
a significant reason of ED crowding in hospitals worldwide. Timely forecast of patients …

Modified genetic algorithm-based feature selection combined with pre-trained deep neural network for demand forecasting in outpatient department

S Jiang, KS Chin, L Wang, G Qu, KL Tsui - Expert systems with applications, 2017 - Elsevier
A well-performed demand forecasting can provide outpatient department (OPD) managers
with essential information for staff scheduling and rostering, considering the non-reservation …

An integrated socio-technical approach for post-earthquake recovery of interdependent healthcare system

EM Hassan, H Mahmoud - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2020 - Elsevier
The premise of community resilience hinges on preventing extreme events from becoming
disasters through minimizing initial disruptions and ensuring quick recovery of the various …

Predicting emergency department admissions

J Boyle, M Jessup, J Crilly, D Green, J Lind… - Emergency Medicine …, 2012 - emj.bmj.com
Objective To develop and validate models to predict emergency department (ED)
presentations and hospital admissions for time and day of the year. Methods Initial model …

COVID-19: Short-term forecast of ICU beds in times of crisis

M Goic, MS Bozanic-Leal, M Badal, LJ Basso - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
By early May 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections started to increase rapidly in
Chile, threatening the ability of health services to accommodate all incoming cases …

Review of modeling approaches for emergency department patient flow and crowding research

JL Wiler, RT Griffey, T Olsen - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 1371–1379© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Emergency department (ED) crowding is an …