Abstract A 4-week, province-wide nurses' strike in Alberta in 1982 caused the closure of
57% of the acute care beds, including 47% of the intensive care beds, in Calgary. The …

A chart audit of emergency services provided by attending staff during the New York City
House Officers' strike is compared to an audit of work previously performed by house staff …

Abstract Background In July of 2017, after more than 15 months of negotiations, an
academic teaching hospital in Boston failed to reach an agreement on the terms of contract …

The Los Angeles County (California) physician strike of January 1976 resulted in a partial
withdrawal of physician services. Among recorded impacts were a 17.5 …

A 55-item questionnaire was administered via telephone to patients prior to (n= 644) and
during (N= 906) a strike by hospital employees in order to assess levels of satisfaction with …

The strike weapon has been a troublesome concept for nurses ever since they adopted
collective bargaining in the 1940s. They have usually exercised their right to strike with …

Hospitals now represent one of the largest union sectors of the US economy, and there is
particular concern about the impact of strikes on patient welfare. We analyze the effects of …

We studied changes in emergency room (ER) utilization at a major Jerusalem teaching
hospital during a long doctors' strike. The volume of ER visits increased by approximately …

A sample of Emergency Room (ER) charts from the Emergency Department of Hadassah
University Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, was examined for the period of the 1983 …

A threatened strike by non‐professional hospital employees caused a teaching hospital to
halve its in‐patient numbers This paper describes this unexpected, involuntary intervention …