Policy Roundtable: Emergency Department Boarding and Hospital Quality

Predicting Hospital Patients' Admission to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding

Increased Emergency Department Boarding Times

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A Queuing-base Statistical Approximation of Hospital Emergency Department Boarding

A hospital Emergency Department’s (ED’s) wait times can be driven by high occupancy in its downstream InPatient hospital (IP). ED patients not admitted to the IP due to high IP occupancy or transfer delays are termed to be 'boarding' in the ED. ED boarding causes a decrease in ED service capacity, longer ED wait times, increased fractions of patients that leave without treatment, and increased ...

Patients overwhelmingly prefer inpatient boarding to emergency department boarding.

BACKGROUND Boarding of admitted patients in the emergency department (ED) is a major cause of crowding. One alternative to boarding in the ED, a full-capacity protocol where boarded patients are redeployed to inpatient units, can reduce crowding and improve overall flow. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to compare patient satisfaction with boarding in the ED vs. inpatient hallways. METHODS We performe...

The association between length of emergency department boarding and mortality.

OBJECTIVES Emergency department (ED) boarding has been associated with several negative patient-oriented outcomes, from worse satisfaction to higher inpatient mortality rates. The current study evaluates the association between length of ED boarding and outcomes. The authors expected that prolonged ED boarding of admitted patients would be associated with higher mortality rates and longer hospi...