Access block and prolonged length of stay in the emergency department are associated with a higher patient mortality rate

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
• ² Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
• ³ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Emergency Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Shanghai 200025, China.
• ⁴ School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
• ⁵ Jiading District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 201800, China.
• ⁶ Department of Statistical Information, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 201801, China.
• ⁷ Department of Emergency, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
• ⁸ Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment of the Ministry of Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.