응급실 대기시간 지연 요인 분석
응급실 대기시간 지연 요인 분석
This is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. If you’re having a health crisis, you’d like to think you can count on 기대하다, 의지하다 getting quick treatment in a hospital emergency room 응급실. But a new study shows the wait is getting longer. For example, for heart attack 심장 발작 patients 10 years ago, the average wait was 8 minutes. But by 2004, it was up to 20 minutes. Dr. John LaPook has tonight’s Eye on Your Health.
“Bag of saline <무균성의> 식염수 and a… and tubing, please.” The emergency room has become a waiting room, according to a study of more than 90,000 ER visits. "My mother was seriously ill for a couple of years and I frequently had to take her to the hospital and we often waited three, four, five, six hours." And did that tick you off 화나게 하다? “Tick me off?! Yes. Yes. Yes.”
A report finds emergency room waiting times have increased 36% since the 90s, from an average of 22 minutes to 30. "Patients who are arriving to the emergency department with time-sensitive illnesses may not be receiving the care that they need, given these longer waits." Why? The number of ER visits has increased, and the number of emergency rooms has decreased 감소하다.
"Because of hospital closure 폐점, the number of in-patient 입원환자 beds nationwide has shrunken. While at the same time our population is getting older, requiring more in-patient care and they are getting sicker." Cambridge Health Alliance hospitals have been able to reduce waiting time 18% over the last six months through steps like better scheduling of elective surgery 대기수술. But making hospitals more efficient is not enough.
Improving care inside the emergency room depends on solving a major problem outside of it. With 47 million Americans lacking health insurance, the emergency room has been taking the place of ~에 대신하다, ~을 대리하다 the primary-care doctor. Dr. John LaPook, CBS News,