Hospital emergency rooms overcrowded: report
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Emergency rooms at U.S. hospitals are   becoming stretched as patient visits increase while the number   of emergency facilities declines, a new report said.
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Workload and doctors who don&#39;t have enough time for patients are cited as causes of medical errors. By Lee Bowman / Scripps Howard News Service.
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New York hospitals are spending hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding and expanding their emergency rooms.
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The number of ambulances taking over an hour to reach a call-out has doubled since 2000, figures suggest.
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Patients are waiting longer for care in the nation's emergency rooms, a potentially deadly result of the shrinking number of emergency departments and rising demand for emergency services, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
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Dozens of hospital wards across the UK have been forced to close due to outbreaks of winter virus
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More patients visiting A&E are being seen quickly but there is still room for improvement, an official report says.
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A state commission also plans to force more hospitals to merge or cut beds, according to several people briefed on the panelÂs report.
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When patients in the hospital suddenly go into cardiac arrest, the staff often takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds.
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even deadly -- mistakes in hospitals, but an overwhelming majority say the solution lies in easy-to-read, published safety report cards
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Patients queue in 11 ambulances for  up to an hour at Wales' largest hospital because of a lack of beds.
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Substandard care at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital may have contributed to 19 deaths over the past two years
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CHICAGO -- A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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Ambulances queue outside two major hospital forced to close to all but critically-ill patients as no beds are free.
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Flu and other illnesses have hit the region later than usual this year, emptying offices and schools and sending overflow crowds to emergency rooms.
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Firefighters responded to reports of a fire at Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday morning, and a security supervisor said parts of the hospital were being evacuated.
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A new study on emergency rooms disputes the common wisdom that the poor and uninsured are filling them up.