关于英国的等待时间 急诊室4小时的目标对临床而言并不合理

Four hour target for emergency departments isn’t clinically sound

对追踪到的表现进行统计分析可能是英国国家健康体系（NHS）的问题之一。要求95％到急诊室患者应在4小时内被接诊，并做收入院或出院处理，这观点从一开始就错了。外行的朋友问我分诊机制是否还在有效运作，

The statistics that track its performance might be part of the NHS’s problem.12 The idea that 95% of patients attending hospital emergency departments should be seen and admitted or discharged in four hours was wrong from the start. Lay friends ask me whether triage still works effectively; the sickest do get seen first, but the four hour limit means that patients do not feel …