Modulating throughput: practical emergency department (ED) flow models from a rural Canadian ED to directly increase patient throughput

Affiliations

• ¹ Carbonear Institute for Rural Reach and Innovation By the Sea (CIRRIS), Carbonear, NL, Canada. [email protected].
• ² Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. [email protected].
• ³ Centre for Rural Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
• ⁴ Carbonear Institute for Rural Reach and Innovation By the Sea (CIRRIS), Carbonear, NL, Canada.
• ⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Esbjerg and Grindsted Hospital, University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
• ⁷ Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Neuchâtel Cantonal Hospital, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.