HLST 1011 Final: summary 4 HLST 1011
9 Dec 2017
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Andrew affleck, paul parks, alan drummond, brian h. rowe, howard j. The authors for this article discuss overcrowding in emergency departments from across. Ontario and the inadequate care that doctors are providing their patients due to long wait times. Such care leads to increased risks in mortality and ultimately patients are not being satisfied with their treatment and often feel neglected to the service being provided. In other words, it acts as an access block which is the restricted access to healthcare. One reason that crowding develops in these departments is because of a lack of systemic inpatient capacity. This is when there is not enough room in the system for patients to be admitted. For example: not having enough beds for patients who really need them. One main reason to why this occurs is that hospitals are always cutting down on their number of beds every fiscal period.
