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Overcrowding in the ED: An international symptom of health care system failure

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    Older people require expert assessment to achieve quality of life. Hospital partnership can assist this group by providing appropriate services to the community and is radically differently to current “destination” based service provision models (Fan et al., 2014; Graff, 1999). In Australia 17.6% of ED patients were over 65 years of age in 2007 (AIHW, 2008) and a recent AIHW report (2014) related to emergency department care shows the figure to be 20% for persons 65 years or older.

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    MCDA can also effectively aggregate the marginal performance of the indicators considering the preferences of the decision makers regarding the achievement of the defined strategic objective. Overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) tends to be a significant international crisis that negatively affects patient safety, quality of care, and patient satisfaction (Graff, 1999). ED overcrowding has been declared as a “National Emergency” in Ireland since 2006.

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