Emergency Department, Hôpital Bichat, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France (Drs Ghazali, Choquet, Bouzid, and Casalino); Study Group for Efficiency and Quality of Emergency Departments and Non-Scheduled Activities Departments, Paris, France (Drs Ghazali, Choquet, Bouzid, Peyrony, Fontaine, Sonja, Revue, and Casalino); IAME (Infection, Antimicrobial, Modeling, Evaluation), INSERM, Université de Paris, Paris, France (Drs Ghazali, Bouzid, and Casalino); Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint Louis, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France (Drs Peyrony, Fontaine, and Casalino); Emergency Department, Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Clichy, France (Drs Sonja and Casalino); Emergency Department, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France (Drs Plaisance, Revue, Chauvin, and Casalino); and Emergency Department, Hôpital Louis Mourier, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Colombes, France (Dr Javaud).
Correspondence: Daniel Aiham Ghazali, MD, PhD, Emergency Department, Bichat Academic Hospital, AP-HP, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France ([email protected]).
The authors would like to thank Jeffrey Arsham, an American scientific translator, for having reviewed the English-language text of the first version.
D.A.G. and E.C. conceived the study and designed the method. A.C., C.C., E.C., E.R., J.P.F., N.J., P.P., and S.C. put in place the main organizational and managerial tools to ensure the reception of patients. D.B., O.P., D.A.G., and E.C. drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. D.A.G. and E.C. take responsibility for the paper as a whole.
All data analyzed during this study are included in the article. Extra data are available by emailing the corresponding author.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
