The National Emergency Department Overcrowding Scale and Perceived Staff Workload
NEDOCS does not have a strong correlation with individual responses on questionnaires of perceived workload for staff in a pediatric ED. NEDOCS, as a measure of overcrowding, may be better correlated with perceived workload during periods with elevated crowding or when interpreted categorically as yes/no "severely overcrowded".
Authors
- Rimma Perotte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-189X)
- Joan Bregstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0824-4187)
- Meridith Sonnett
- Megan L. Nye
- Jake Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5730-3339)
- David Kessler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1636-7320)
- Kenneth McKinley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4624-5778)
- Daniel Fenster
- Maria Y. Kwok
Institutions
- Hackensack University Medical Center (US)
- Children's National (US)
- McGill University (CA)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Emergency Care
- Published
- 2024-11-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0000000000003300
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.38