Emergency department overcrowding in Canada
Subtitle: what are the issues and what can be done?
Contributors: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health.; University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center
Series: Technology overview -- no. 21; Technology overview (Ottawa, Ont. : 1998) -- issue 21.
Publisher: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies Health=Agence canadienne des médicaments et des technologies de la santé
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Hospitals -- Emergency service -- Utilization -- Canada.; Hospitals -- Emergency service -- Utilization -- Canada -- Statistics.; Emergency medical services -- Utilization -- Canada.; Emergency medical services -- Utilization -- Canada -- Statistics.; Hospitals -- Waiting lists -- Canada.
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: Measuring overcrowding in emergency departments; Data collection on patients in emergency departments in Canada; Frequency, determinants, and impact of overcrowding in emergency departments in Canada; Interventions to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments
Notes: "May 2006."

This overview was created from four longer reports authored by the University of Alberta, Evidence-based Practice Centre.

This overview is based on four technology reports commissioned by CADTH: Measuring overcrowding in emergency departments : a call for standardization / Ospina MB ... [et al.] ; Data collection on patients in emergency departments in Canada / Rowe BH ... [et al.] ; Frequency, determinants, and impact of overcrowding in emergency departments in Canada: a national survey of emergency department directors / Rowe BH ;  Interventions to reduce overcrowding in emergency departments / Bond K ... [et al.].  Ottawa: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 14).