National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS)

Are you evaluating the workload in the Emergency Department?

Yes

Number of hospital beds

Number of beds in the ED

Number of patients being treated in the ED

Number of patients admitted from the ED

Number of patients on respirators in the ED

Number of hours that the last patient called from the waiting room had to wait

Longest number of hours that a patient had to wait for a hospital bed

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Total score

Overcrowding outcome score

Which indicates that the ED is

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National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) Index