The Association Between Transfer of Emergency Department Boarders to Inpatient Hallways and Mortality: A 4-Year Experience

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 487-491

  Viccellio, Asa ^a   Santora, Carolyn ^a   Singer, Adam J ^a   Thode Jr , Henry C ^a   Henry, Mark C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70349152711     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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