(UK, healthcare) The treatment of patients in spaces not intended for clinical purposes, such as corridors and waiting-rooms, as a result of overcrowding.
(UK, healthcare) The treatment of patients in spaces not intended for clinical purposes, such as corridors and waiting-rooms, as a result of overcrowding.
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(chiefly, Canada, medicine) A state of affairs in which patients are assigned to and treated in beds or gurneys located in hospital hallways due to a shortage of hospital rooms.
(North America, Philippines, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.
(UK) The treatment and care of physically and mentally disabled people in their own homes, rather than in an institution.
(British) (also casualty ward) the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.