Time Patients Spend in the Emergency Department: England's 4-Hour Rule—A Case of Hitting the Target but Missing the Point?

Impact of delayed transfer of critically ill patients from the emergency department to the intensive care unit*

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Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Transport +12

Emergency department crowding and thrombolysis delays in acute myocardial infarction

Michael J. Schull, Marian J. Vermeulen, Graham Slaughter et al. · Annals of Emergency Medicine · 2004 · 416 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine +8

Pay for Performance, Quality of Care, and Outcomes in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Seth W. Glickman, Fang‐Shu Ou, Elizabeth R. DeLong et al. · JAMA · 2007 · 316 citations · Full text

Nursing, Cardiology, Health Administration +17

The Association Between Emergency Department Crowding and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Chest Pain

Jesse M. Pines, Charles V. Pollack, Deborah B. Diercks et al. · Academic Emergency Medicine · 2009 · 287 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine +8

Use of process measures to monitor the quality of clinical practice

Richard Lilford, Celia Brown, Jon Nicholl · BMJ · 2007 · 270 citations · Full text

Management, Performance Management, Quality Management +17