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2010
ACM
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Anxiety of patients in the waiting room of the emergency department
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 ...
JungKyoon Yoon, Marieke Sonneveld
ACMDIS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Easing the wait in the emergency room: building a theory of public information systems
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...
Eamonn O'Neill, Dawn Woodgate, Vassilis Kostakos
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Reducing Emergency Department overcrowding - five patient buffer concepts in comparison
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 ...
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Simulation-based verification of lean improvement for emergency room process
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...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Functional Analysis for Operating Emergency Department of a General Hospital
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...
Soemon Takakuwa, Hiroko Shiozaki