Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point

Why this matters here

The Institute of Medicine's 2007 review describes constrained emergency-care capacity, crowded hospitals, and the difficulty of transferring patients to inpatient beds. When Incentives Become the Moral Language cites that system pressure where the hospital must coordinate many rooms and decisions at once. The source documents capacity and boarding pressures; the book's argument about how judgment travels through standardized criteria is its own.