This study aims at understanding the patient’s experience in the waiting room of the emergency department. The research explores and unveils the context and interactions in the ...
In this paper we discuss a real world problem encountered during recent fieldwork: that of providing information in public settings when the information has both public and privat...
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a common medical care issue in the United States and other developed nations. One major cause of ED crowding are holding patients waiting...
Erik Michael Wilhelm Kolb, Jordan Peck, Sebastian ...
One of the key challenges to health care access in Canadian hospitals is growing overcrowding of the Emergency Departments (EDs), leading to the medical personnel overload, and th...
Nancy Khurma, Gheorghe M. Bacioiu, Zbigniew J. Pas...
An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be proc...