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Survey: Crowded EDs lead to patient deaths
Quality Improvement Monitor, October 12, 2007
Crowded emergency departments (ED) have led to the deaths of more than 100 patients, according to doctors who took part in a survey released this week by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), HealthDay reported.
Of the 1,496 emergency physicians who took the survey, 80%, or 1,200, said they had grave concerns about overcrowding in their EDs. Half said they'd personally encountered a patient who'd suffered due to "boarding," HealthDay said. And 200 doctors said they knew of patients who'd died because of boarding.
Eighty percent of those polled said crowding had worsened in the past year, HealthDay reported.
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