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- For patients, studies have found that ED crowding is correlated with discomfort, reduced privacy, treatment delays, and higher risk of prolonged disease and death. ED crowding also leads to increased violence toward staff, greater clinician and nurse turnover, and high rates of burnout.
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Jan 13, 2024 · Canadian emergency rooms are overflowing while an array of respiratory illnesses — COVID-19 included — keep circulating. And it's happening against a backdrop of behind-the-scenes backlogs that...
- Why ERs are under intense pressure across Canada - CBC.ca
Emergency rooms across Canada are facing a growing crisis —...
- Why ERs are under intense pressure across Canada - CBC.ca
Jun 24, 2023 · Emergency rooms across Canada are facing a growing crisis — staffing shortages, burnout, worsening wait-times, closures, a lack of adequate funding and a surge of patients seeking urgent...
Jan 14, 2024 · Emergency departments across the country are overwhelmed with patients waiting many hours to receive care due to a mix of factors including staffing shortages, overcrowding and a surge of...
Sep 30, 2022 · In a pair of new studies, Yale researchers document a widespread and increasing level of overcrowding in America’s emergency departments (EDs), a crisis that puts patient safety and access to care at risk.
Jul 19, 2024 · According to a report published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, if recently published analyses of weekly deaths attributable to emergency overcrowding in the United Kingdom hold...
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Dec 21, 2023 · Overcrowded emergency rooms are frustrating patients and staff in parts of the country as respiratory illness season exacerbates long waits for care. Combined with bed shortages, an aging...
Jan 11, 2024 · In a statement released Thursday, the CMA warned that Canadian emergency rooms are experiencing overflow due to a combination of staffing shortages, overcrowding and inadequate access to...
