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Fig. 4 | BMC Emergency Medicine

Fig. 4

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

Fig. 4

The empirical cumulative distribution function of max queues in the ED. The dotted red line indicates the point of 100 % bed occupancy (i.e. a queue length of 19). On weekdays there was a risk that 19 or more patients being present in the ED of 54 %, 56 % and < 1 % at some point during day, evening and night shift respectively. In weekends the risk was 21 %, 27 % and < 1 %

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