Opinion: Emergency Rooms Shouldn’t Be Parking Lots For Patients

Waits for inpatient beds are an important factor in ER overcrowding.

Patients in hospital ERs can wait hours for inpatient beds to open up. The delays can be maddening. A solution for this longstanding problem has been elusive in the U.S., despite progress elsewhere.

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