Author Affiliation M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS Stanford University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford, California Lesley J. Meng, HBA, BMSc Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, New York Mary P. Mercer, MD, MPH University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California Jesse M. Pines, MD, MBA, MSCE […]
To assess current medical staffing levels within the Hospital Referral System in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa, and analyze the surge capacity needs to prepare for the potential of a conventional mass casualty incident during a planned mass gathering.
The objective of this study was to evaluate those factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the emergency department (ED) that influence two specific components of throughput: “door-to-doctor” time and dwell time.
