Urgent assessment in emergency departments can reduce surgical decision time and overcrowding
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
The use of acute care emergency surgical service (ACCESS) in emergency departments (EDs) can lead to significant reductions in key patient measures, such as length of stay, surgical decision-making time and "time-to-stretcher" (one measure of overall ED overcrowding), according to a new study.