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Comparison of the International Crowding Measure in Emergency Departments (ICMED) and the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS) to measure emergency department crowding: pilot…

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Title
Comparison of the International Crowding Measure in Emergency Departments (ICMED) and the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS) to measure emergency department crowding: pilot study
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Emergency Medicine Journal, January 2016
DOI 10.1136/emermed-2014-203616
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Adrian Boyle, Gary Abel, Pramin Raut, Richard Austin, Vijayasankar Dhakshinamoorthy, Ravi Ayyamuthu, Iona Murdoch, Joel Burton

Abstract

There is uncertainty about the best way to measure emergency department crowding. We have previously developed a consensus-based measure of crowding, the International Crowding Measure in Emergency Departments (ICMED). We aimed to obtain pilot data to evaluate the ability of a shortened form of the ICMED, the sICMED, to predict senior emergency department clinicians' concerns about crowding and danger compared with a very well-studied measure of emergency department crowding, the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS). We collected real-time observations of the sICMED and NEDOCS and compared these with clinicians' perceptions of crowding and danger on a visual analogue scale. Data were collected in four emergency departments in the East of England. Associations were explored using simple regression, random intercept models and models accounting for correlation between adjacent time points. We conducted 82 h of observation in 10 observation sets. Naive modelling suggested strong associations between sICMED and NEDOCS and clinician perceptions of crowding and danger. Further modelling showed that, due to clustering, the association between sICMED and danger persisted, but the association between these two measures and perception of crowding was no longer statistically significant. Both sICMED and NEDOCS can be collected easily in a variety of English hospitals. Further studies are required but initial results suggest both scores may have potential use for assessing crowding variation at long timescales, but are less sensitive to hour-by-hour variation. Correlation in time is an important methodological consideration which, if ignored, may lead to erroneous conclusions. Future studies should account for such correlation in both design and analysis.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 91 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 25%
Researcher 18 20%
Other 7 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 5%
Student > Bachelor 4 4%
Other 13 14%
Unknown 22 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 41%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Unspecified 1 1%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 25 27%
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#22
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