de Araujo, Pedro; Khraiche, Maroula; Tukan, Andrea - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 25, pp. 1-7
We examine the impact of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding on wait times and patient outcomes using a unique cross section of about 32,000 patients for an ED located in the Southwestern United States. We construct a measure of a patient's outcome and estimate the extent to which it is...