Superlotação na Emergência

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in August 2007 established

a task force to develop three to five low-cost or no-cost solutions to the practice

of “boarding,” or holding, patients admitted to the hospital in the emergency department,

which is the primary cause of overcrowding. The task force was charged

with proposing solutions to address the growing crisis that is harming the public’s

access to lifesaving emergency care. For the purposes of this report, a boarded

patient is defined as a patient who remains in the emergency department after the

decision to admit him or her to the hospital has been made.www.acep.org/workarea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id