Meeting
Abstract Number: 196
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Keeping admitted patients in the emergency room (ER) carries negative operational and clinical consequences. Prolonged stays reduce ER bed turnover, thereby limiting access for other patients. Furthermore prolonged ER length of stay (LOS) has shown to be an independent risk factor for 30 day mortality for admitted patients. For these reasons, Veterans Affairs (VA) […]
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Our 165-bed community hospital is in a phase of rapid growth due to demographic changes and expansion of services offered within the hospital. While offering unprecedented level of healthcare access to the community, improvement with emergency department (ED) throughput has emerged as one of our challenges from a patient safety perspective. Unnecessarily prolonged ED […]