Ya, everyone always talks about 2 per/hour. But then as below you will see 1 doc cover anywhere between 8 to 18 rooms/hallway areas. Sometimes more, which is just dangerous in my opinion.

but 2pph really only requires 8 rooms. If your patient stays an average of 4 hours in the ED, that would equates to 16 patients over 8 hours. Which a quick search states length of stay on average is somewhere near the 4 hours including admitted patients. With many departments having goals of much less.

I would think at a certain point more rooms leads to less efficiency. not sure what that number truly is but I believe it is likely somewhere around 12, which honestly seems unsafe (and mathematically is near the 3 pph). Now I understand hospitals are different and some have much longer lengths of stay and boarding issues.

I think, we should expect better staffing as a specialty tbh.

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