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Publication - Advice and guidance

Emergency Department Capacity Management Guidance

Published
30 September 2015
Topic
Health and social care
ISBN
9781785446979

The Unscheduled Care Steering Group convened the Emergency Department Capacity Management Expert Group, which includes clinicians and managers, to review evidence and contribute their experience and expertise to the development of guidance to eliminate crowding in emergency departments (EDs) in Scotland. The aim was to develop an escalation framework for implementation across NHS Scotland.

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References

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2. Richardson D (2006) Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding. Medical Journal of Australia. 184(5): 213-216.

3. Sun B et al. (2012) Effect of emergency department crowding on outcomes of admitted patients. Presented as an abstract at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, October 2011, San Francisco, CA; and at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 2012, Orlando, FL.

4. Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2014) Crowding in Emergency Departments - Revised June 2014. RCEM, London (www.rcem.ac.uk/code/document.asp?ID=6296, accessed 24 September 2015).

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Contact

Email: Helen Maitland

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