Characterizing waiting room time, treatment time, and boarding time in the emergency department using quantile regression

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 813-823

  Ding, Ru ^a   McCarthy, Melissa L ^a   Desmond, Jeffrey S ^b   Lee, Jennifer S ^c   Aronsky, Dominik ^d   Zeger, Scott L ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Length of stay; Prediction; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BOARDING TIME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT TIME; WAITING ROOM; WAITING ROOM TIME;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77955765933     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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