Dr. Chang Kuo-song, director of the emergency department at Mackay Memorial Hospital, says that in the US, there are regulations which state that patients can only remain under observation in the ER for six to eight hours. In Taiwan, however, ER patients often stay in the ER for a week, and in some cases may even be there for as long as three months.
馬偕紀念醫院急救加護醫學科主任張國頌指出，在美國，急診室的留觀時間規定在六至八小時以內，但是台灣的急診病患可能在急診室裡待上一個星期，甚至長到二、三個月。