Study: Many California EDs dangerously crowded
Case Management Weekly, April 18, 2007
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California EDs were closed to ambulances 10% of the time during 2005, according to a new report from The Abaris Group, a
According to the report, ED diversions affect patient care resources resulting in continuity of care issues, such as the patient's physician not having hospital privileges at the alternative receiving hospital and the hospital not having the patient's medical records.
The report finds that four regions in California-Ventura, Los Angeles, the Inland Counties, and San Diego-had the most diversions per hospital ED bed, equivalent to diverting one in five ambulance patients during 2005.
Source: The Abaris Group
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