{"id":1053,"date":"2012-12-18T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:03:14","slug":"a-crowded-emergency-department-can-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"A crowded emergency department can kill you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post\u00a0 Posted by <a title=\"Visit Sarah Kliff\u2019s website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sarah-kliff\/2011\/07\/28\/gIQAoLzSfI_page.html\" rel=\"author external\">Sarah Kliff<\/a>on December 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A crowded emergency department waiting room is more than unpleasant: New research suggests it\u2019s a serious hazard to your health.\u00a0 Researchers recently looked at the difference in outcomes of patients who entered California hospitals through the emergency department in 2007. They looked at patients who visited the emergency department when it was \u201csaturated,\u201d working at capacity and diverting ambulances elsewhere, and those who visited at less crowded times.\u00a0 They found, in a new\u00a0<em>Annals of Emergency Medicine\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annemergmed.com\/webfiles\/images\/journals\/ymem\/FA-bcsun.pdf\">study<\/a>, that patients who came in through a crowded emergency department had 5 percent greater odds of dying in the hospital. Those patients also had longer hospital stays and higher costs, the same paper finds.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2012\/12\/06\/a-crowded-emergency-department-can-kill-you\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><!-- .entry-header --><!-- UTILITY BAR --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post\u00a0 Posted by Sarah Kliffon December 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A crowded emergency department waiting room is more than unpleasant: New research suggests it\u2019s a serious hazard to <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1053\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[507,506,508,80],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-annals-of-emergency-medicine","tag-emergency-room","tag-hospital-error","tag-hospital-medical-errors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}