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The “overcrowding” in Emergency Departments (EDs) and its potentially negative consequences, is a well known phenomenon in western countries. The causes of this phenomenon in this area are: constantly decreased number of hospital beds, increased number of ED visits and demographic changes (increasing prevalence of elderly people and migrants). Overcrowding in EDs accounts different timing of various care-paths (e.g. door-to-balloon time in STEMI) and also influences the degree of care given to patients. Moreover overcrowding has also been considered as a first-line cause of doctor’s and nurse’s burnout and of verbal or physical assault. The overcrowding phenomenon seems to be more effectively influenced by interventions directed to improve patient’s output from ED to wards; by contrast interventions directed to limit ED visits failed to be effective. Gianni Rastelli, Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza e della Diagnostica, Ospedale di Fidenza-S. Secondo; Azienda USL di Parma Mario Cavazza, Medicina d’Urgenza e Pronto Soccorso, Dipartimento di Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia generale e dei Trapianti; Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna - Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna Gianfranco Cervellin, Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Dipartimento di Emergenza-Urgenza; Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma Rastelli, G., Cavazza, M., & Cervellin, G. (2010). Overcrowded ERs: analysis of the phenomenon and managing proposals. Emergency Care Journal, 6(2), 25–35. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2010.2.25 More Citation Formats ACM ABNT Chicago Harvard MLA Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.

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