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Maximum emergency department overcrowding is correlated with occurrence of unexpected cardiac arrest.
July 8, 2020
Kim J-sung, Bae H-J, Sohn CH, et al. Crit Care. 2020;24(1):305.
Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) can adversely impact patient safety. This study conducted at a single ED found that maximum ED occupancy rates were positively correlated with in-hospital cardiac arrest over a 3.5-year period, but occupancy rates were not correlated with ED mortality.
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