Meeting
Abstract Number: 240
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Emergency Department (ED) boarding, which occurs when admitted patients do not have an available bed in the hospital, has been associated with adverse patient outcomes. In 2014, 13,109 patients waited greater than 2 hours for a medicine inpatient bed at our large urban academic center. In July 2016, we deployed a 24-hour hospital medicine […]