Meeting
Abstract Number: 113
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding and delays in ED throughput have several important consequences , such as boarding of admitted patients in the ED, longer hospital stays and delay in effective inpatient discharge planning (1). Longer ED boarding time and delay in inpatient discharge process are parts of a vicious cycle of internal bottleneck contributing […]
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 […]
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a commonly encountered challenge and is associated with adverse events and poor patient satisfaction. One of the factors that can contribute to ED overcrowding is the boarding of admitted patients in the ED. Various methods have been implemented to improve this issue with limited success. Purpose: A collaborative workgroup […]