hallway medicine

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Noun

hallway medicine (uncountable)

  1. (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.
    • 2000 January 16, James Brooke, “Full Hospitals Make Canadians Wait and Look South”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 March 2019:
      Further west, in Winnipeg, "hallway medicine" has become so routine that hallway stretcher locations have permanent numbers.
    • 2011 November 2, Pamela Cowan, “Hallway medicine in congested ERs”, in Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Canada, retrieved 22 March 2019:
      For the past month, the Regina General Hospital and the Pasqua Hospital in Regina have had more patients than beds, so hallway medicine is being practised in their emergency departments.
    • 2019 February 14, Bob Bell, “Are private home-care companies about to become more profitable?”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 22 March 2019:
      The premier's health platform commitments were to eliminate hallway medicine and increase long-term care beds and mental illness services.

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