Early lessons from COVID‐19 that may reduce future emergency department crowding

• DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.13612
• Publication Date: 2020-08-13T07:17:26Z
• Authors: Laurie Mazurik; Arshia P Javidan; Ian Higginson; Simon Judkins; David Petrie; Colin A Graham; John Bonning; Kim Hansen; Eddy Lang
• Keywords: Crowding; Pandemic; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Crowding out

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant changes in emergency medicine patient volumes, clinical practice, and accelerated a number of systems-level developments. Many these efficiencies care systems contributed to reduction crowding access block. In this paper, we explore changes, analyse their risks benefits examine sustainability for the future extent that they may combat crowding. We also necessity system-wide approach addressing ED