An analysis by CIHI found that one in 10 patients who required admission to hospital last year were forced to wait more than two days in Emergency.
Emergency departments across Canada are struggling to cope with a growing number of seriously ill patients, driving up wait times and leaving those sick enough to need a hospital bed to face the longest delays.
National data released Thursday shows that one in 10 patients — about 180,000 people — who required admission to hospital last year were forced to wait more than two days in an emergency department.
In Canada's gridlocked emergency rooms, more sick patents are being treated in "unconventional spaces," including chairs.
Patients are not receiving the best care because “we don’t have the space”, the emergency doctors’ college warns.
New data lays bare the scale of an ‘unacceptable’ crisis leaving patients being treated without ‘privacy or dignity’
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Patients are being forced to wait two days for a bed as corridor care become ‘endemic’
The number of people waiting in emergency departments rose sharply to 71,517 in January
