Emergency Room Wait Time

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This paper looks at ways in which this nation's emergency rooms are made inefficient for both the patients who they are meant to serve and the professionals that staff them, due to delays. This paper first reviews the literature and then evaluates the causes of lengthy emergency department wait times. This paper concludes with recommendations and ideas for possible solutions to this problem.

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"This paper will analyze the wait time as seen in this nation's hospital emergency rooms. The four scholarly sources to be used are as follows. In "Making room for more," from the journal Modern Healthcare, Mary Chris Jaklevic studies the problems of a swamped Chicago emergency department and the remedies that were implemented. In "Avoiding the health care squeeze," Susan J. Wells looks at ways in which certain health care groups have streamlined their struggling emergency departments. In "Emergency department operations: The basis for developing a simulation tool," Marmor and Sinreich detail how technology has been used to best avoid inefficiency in emergency rooms. Finally, in "Urban health care in transition: Challenges facing Los Angeles County," from the journal Health Care Financing Review, Long and Zuckerman detail Los Angeles' plans to revamp traditional emergency medicine by depending instead on community-based care."

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