National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS)

National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) Index

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Are you evaluating the workload in the Emergency Department?

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Number of hospital beds

Number of beds in the ED

Number of patients being treated in the ED

Number of patients admitted from the ED

Number of patients on respirators in the ED

Number of hours that the last patient called from the waiting room had to wait

Longest number of hours that a patient had to wait for a hospital bed

National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) Index

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Evaluation appropriate?

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Overcrowding outcome score

Which indicates that the ED is

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National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) Index

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Purpose:

To evaluate the workload in the Emergency Department (ED) using the National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) index.

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Objective

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