Table 1 Search strategy
NO | Construct | |
|---|---|---|
#1 | "Emergency Service, Hospital" OR "Emergency Medicine" OR "Emergency Nursing" OR "emergency medicine" OR "emergency nursing" OR "Hospital Emergency Service" OR "Hospital Emergency Services" OR "Emergency Hospital Service" OR "Emergency Hospital Services" OR "Emergency Department" OR "Emergency Departments" OR "Emergency Unit" OR "Emergency Units" OR "Emergency Ward" OR "Emergency Wards" OR "Emergency Room" OR "Emergency Rooms" OR "trauma center" OR "trauma centers" OR "trauma unit" OR "trauma units" OR (emergency AND hospital) | |
#2 | "crowding" OR crowd* OR congest* OR overcrowd* OR gridlock* OR queu* OR overload* OR "access block*" OR "Patient flow" OR "patient inflow" OR "Patient turnover" OR "patient Caseload" OR "patient Caseloads" OR "patient throughput*" OR "emergency department throughput" OR "patient journey" OR "patient inflow" OR "patient path*" OR "patient disposition" OR "patient dispositions" OR bottleneck OR bottlenecks OR challenge OR challenges OR barriers OR barrier OR "Patient boarding" OR delay OR delays OR"choke point" OR "choke points" | |
#3 | “systematic review” OR “systematic reviews” OR meta anal* OR meta-anal* OR meta syn* OR meta-synth* OR systematic OR scoping | |
#4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | Limits: English language 2018/1/1—2023/3/3 |