The phrase "acute waiting" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could be interpreted in contexts where one is waiting with a sense of urgency or intensity, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The acute waiting for the results left everyone in the room on edge."
Alternatives: "intense waiting" or "anxious waiting".
While patients with life-threatening illnesses are seen promptly, overcrowded EDs mean those with less acute illnesses wait for increasingly longer times.
This student reflected on a prior experience in the emergency department where a patient with acute pancreatitis waited an hour before being given pain relief.
Acute ALC patients waiting for nursing home admission contribute approximately four times as many inappropriate bed days relative to their proportion.
Length of stay in hospital was mainly dependent upon severity of stroke, death from stroke in the acute phase and waiting lists for nursing home care (table 2 [a]).
We found that, in Norway, the CRTs did not have 24/7 availability or gate-keeping functions for acute wards, average waiting time was about one and a half days, and the CRTs appeared to treat some patients who were not considered for hospital admission.
Benzodiazepines may be useful as adjunctive therapy early in treatment, particularly for acute anxiety or agitation, to help patients in times of acute crises, or while waiting for onset of adequate efficacy of SSRIs or other antidepressants [ 32].
Those thought to be destined for discharge directly home or to post-acute rehabilitation centres were unlikely to receive any further therapy in the acute setting, and patients waiting for discharge to a residential care bed became a very low priority for AH care.
The problem of inadequate space was identified by several clinics as particularly acute with respect to waiting areas, where immune-compromised HIV patients and potentially infectious OPD patients were seated in close proximity with insufficient ventilation.
Despite the paucity of beds available in relation to the demand for services, tremendous efforts are made to assure rapid admission to a rehabilitation hospital, usually within 72 hours after the request, to minimize nonmedical bed-days among inpatient rehabilitation candidates waiting in acute care facilities.
Similar to initiatives to reduce acute health services wait times, community health transitional priorities and benchmarks include maximum wait times for community rehabilitation services, attendant care, and for supportive and accessible housing.
