What is it about?
The time that the 6,750 patients that visited the private metropolitan emergency department studied follows a predictable curve. 7,870,266 patients who presented to public Australian emergency departments demonstrated the same curve. The correlation between these two curves was very strong and statistically significant.
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Why is it important?
If you are deciding on staff weightings for a private emergency department, know that the pattern of emergency department visits follows the national public hospital pattern.
Perspectives
What this article provides is a simple challenge - if we know when the patients will arrive, why not match the staff to their arrivals?
Dr Andy Lim
Monash Health
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This page is a summary of: Using the national time presentation curve to guide staffing, Emergency Medicine Australasia, April 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.13509.
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