Emergency Departments (EDs) are supposed to provide healthcare to patients with acute clinical conditions. Nevertheless almost 80% of total access to EDs is represented by white and green code patients. Looking at triage code classification as a proxy of patients’ severity, it clearly emerges...

Emergency Department (ED) activity involves a consistent absorption of resources varying from medical staff to laundry services. Moving from the consideration that staff cost is the most relevant item among those reported in the ED balance sheet, we have conducted a statistical survey in one of...