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Title:
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ASSESSING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT CROWDING BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC |
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Author(s):
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Wided Chandoul, Hervé Camus, Nesrine Zoghlami, Slim Hammadi, Christophe di Pompeo |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-87-8 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Emergency Department, crowding, scales, decision-making support system, fuzzy logic, and control charts. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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21 |
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Last Page:
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28 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Several works have developed the Emergency Department (ED) crowding and were mostly in agreement with the fact that it reflects an international crisis. Throughout this work, we performed a robust fuzzy multi-criteria evaluation which gives a crisp number assessing the crowding level in the Emergency Department (ED) from three input variables. They were collected each one-hour interval over six months from January to June 2011 in the Pediatric ED Jeanne de Flandre of The Regional University Hospital of Lille (France). These three inputs are: the Occupancy Rate, The Patients per attending Physicians and The Acuity Ratio. Our approach was programmed into a software which may help experts in the ED to understand the progress of this phenomenon thanks to graphical representations and help them to act and anticipate disorganizations. This study is a part from a national French project TecSan2011-HOST aiming to control flow in Emergency Department (ED), to evaluate and to anticipate ED crowding mainly in pediatric ED (PED). |
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