Eduardo Santos1, Daniela Cardoso, Paulo Queirós, Madalena Cunha, Manuel Rodrigues, João Apóstolo. 1. 1Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing, Nursing School of Coimbra, The Portugal Centre for Evidence-based Practice: a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Coimbra, Portugal 2Emergency Department: Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), Coimbra, Portugal 3Centre of Studies in Education, Health and Technology - Research and Development Unit, Coimbra, Portugal.
Abstract
REVIEW QUESTION/ OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to identify the effects of emergency department (ED) overcrowding on admitted patient outcomes.More specifically, the questions are: does ED overcrowding increase the admitted patient's mortality? Does ED overcrowding increase the admitted patient's hospital length-of-stay? Does ED overcrowding increase the delay in door-to-needle time to treatment (time to antibiotic, time to thrombolysis and time to analgesic)?
REVIEW QUESTION/ OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to identify the effects of emergency department (ED) overcrowding on admitted patient outcomes.More specifically, the questions are: does ED overcrowding increase the admitted patient's mortality? Does ED overcrowding increase the admitted patient's hospital length-of-stay? Does ED overcrowding increase the delay in door-to-needle time to treatment (time to antibiotic, time to thrombolysis and time to analgesic)?
Authors: Letícia Bianchini de Barros; Laura Passos Caldas; Elena Bohomol; Alice Sarantopoulos; Vinicius Minatogawa; Renata Cristina Gasparino Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2022-06-08 Impact factor: 4.614