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Fig. 3 | BMC Emergency Medicine

Fig. 3

From: A generic method for evaluating crowding in the emergency department

Fig. 3

Boxplot of number of arrivals, queue lengths and maximum queue lengths per day in 2013. The distribution of arrivals and queue length were non-normal with over-dispersion. Queue lengths (“all” as well as “maximum”) and arrivals differed between shifts (Kruskal-Wallis: p < 0.0001). This was true as well between weekdays and weekends for maximum queues and arrivals, but for all queues an association was found (Kruskal-Wallis: p = 0.1309)

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