TY - JOUR
T1 - Crowding in the Emergency Department
T2 - Challenges and Recommendations for the Care of Children
AU - Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine
AU - Gross, Toni K.
AU - Lane, Natalie E.
AU - Timm, Nathan L.
AU - Conners, Gregory P.
AU - Gross, Chairperson Toni
AU - Hoffmann, Jennifer
AU - Hsu, Benson
AU - Lee, Lois
AU - Marin, Jennifer
AU - Mazor, Suzan
AU - Paul, Ronald
AU - Saidinejad, Mohsen
AU - Waseem, Muhammad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - Emergency department (ED) crowding results when available resources cannot meet the demand for emergency services. ED crowding has negative impacts on patients, health care workers, and the community. Primary considerations for reducing ED crowding include improving the quality of care, patient safety, patient experience, and the health of populations, as well as reducing the per capita cost of health care. Evaluating causes, effects, and seeking solutions to ED crowding can be done within a conceptual framework addressing input, throughput, and output factors. ED leaders must coordinate with hospital leadership, health system planners and policy decision makers, and those who provide pediatric care to address ED crowding. Proposed solutions in this policy statement promote the medical home and timely access to emergency care for children.
AB - Emergency department (ED) crowding results when available resources cannot meet the demand for emergency services. ED crowding has negative impacts on patients, health care workers, and the community. Primary considerations for reducing ED crowding include improving the quality of care, patient safety, patient experience, and the health of populations, as well as reducing the per capita cost of health care. Evaluating causes, effects, and seeking solutions to ED crowding can be done within a conceptual framework addressing input, throughput, and output factors. ED leaders must coordinate with hospital leadership, health system planners and policy decision makers, and those who provide pediatric care to address ED crowding. Proposed solutions in this policy statement promote the medical home and timely access to emergency care for children.
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U2 - 10.1542/peds.2022-060971
DO - 10.1542/peds.2022-060971
M3 - Article
C2 - 36808290
AN - SCOPUS:85149153981
SN - 0031-4005
VL - 151
JO - Pediatrics
JF - Pediatrics
IS - 3
M1 - e2022060971
ER -