Patients spend an average 41 minutes in the waiting room and often find the experience stressful, which can impact the patient-provider experience. Retail health clinics might turn on cable TV or ...

Implementing boarder, waiting room, and general ED rounding, while requiring slight tweaks from the usual patient rounds, results in similar benefits: ensuring patients feel heard, keeping them ...

“They’re relegated either to a hallway or they wait a longer time in the waiting room, and then that leads to frustration and some of those patients then leave,” Bankoff said. He said ...

"Patients are collapsing in the waiting room. It's just hectic," Lorraine, a nurse in Birmingham, told BBC's 5 Live on Tuesday. "This is happening in A&E up and down the country, all areas," said ...

Patients with brain bleeds, hip fractures, and even necrotizing genital infections are being treated in the waiting room because there are no rooms or even hallway beds available in the ED.

“The waiting room was very full of patients sitting on the window sills, people were vomiting in the trash cans,” she said. “If I didn’t know someone there, lord knows how long I would ...

An older woman died last week after lying on a stretcher for at least two days in a North Vancouver hospital waiting room. It’s another sign, health-care workers say, of the growing staff ...

The hospital also has a high rate of emergency room patients leaving without getting care, the data shows. The data does not distinguish the time in which a patient is waiting versus receiving ...

A Vitalité spokesperson confirmed to CBC News late Thursday afternoon the patient died in the waiting room, but did not say how long the patient had been waiting. Dr. France Desrosiers ...