Emergency rooms are not doing enough to ease and prevent overcrowding, and it's harming patients.
That's according to a new study by medical researchers at George Washington University, Albany Medical College and Harvard Medical School, who examined crowding intervention strategies employed by hospitals between 2007 and 2010.
The good news is that during the time period examined by the study, hospitals increased the number of interventions aimed at easing overcrowding from an average of 5.2 to 6.6.
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