Causes and countermeasures of emergency department overcrowding

VernacularTitle:急诊科拥挤现象的原因分析及解决对策
Author: Lin CAO ¹ ; Hongxia GE ; Ya'an ZHENG
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1. 北京大学第三医院急诊科,100191
Keywords: Department of Emergency; Overcrowding in Department of Emergency; Elderly patients
From: Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine in Intensive and Critical Care 2019;26(2):254-256
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: With the progresses of aggravation of social population aging degree and elevation of health awareness, the emergency medical resources are difficult to meet the increasing demand for emergency medical services of patients, leading to the increase of congestion in the Department of Emergency that has threatened the safety of the entire medical and health system. Among the patients, because the elderly patient diseases are characterized by coexistence of multiple diseases, the complexity of diagnosis and treatment, etc, they occupy a large number of emergency medical resources, resulting in the main important factor affecting the overcrowding in emergency department. Therefore, we have comprehensively analyzed the domestic and foreign researches related to the overcrowding in emergency departments, summarized the effect of elderly patients on the overcrowding and reviewed the corresponding mitigation measures, expecting to provide a reference for the study of emergency department overcrowding in China.