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Critical Care
Erschienen in: Critical Care 2/2011

01.04.2011 | Review

Access block and emergency department overcrowding

verfasst von: Roberto Forero, Sally McCarthy, Ken Hillman

Erschienen in: Critical Care | Ausgabe 2/2011

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Access block affecting the emergency department (ED), also known as boarding in the United States and Canada, can be described as a phenomenon comprising almost all the challenges in the world of modern EDs. We use the analogy of parallel universes to illustrate both the complexity and the severity of the problem. In the world of physics, many attempts have been made to create a mathematical solution that can answer the more basic questions about physical phenomena in the universe. This has been known as 'Theory of Everything'. Albert Einstein spent 30 years of his life trying to solve this 'Theory of Everything', but failed [1]. …
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Metadaten
Titel
Access block and emergency department overcrowding
verfasst von
Roberto Forero
Sally McCarthy
Ken Hillman
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2011
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Critical Care / Ausgabe 2/2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9998

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