An empirical assessment of boarding and quality of care: Delays in care among chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1339-1348

  Liu, Shan W ^a,b   Chang, Yuchiao ^a   Weissman, Joel S ^a   Griffey, Richard T ^c   Thomas, James ^d   Nergui, Suvd ^e   Hamedani, Azita G ^f   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^a,b   Singer, Sara ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Good Samaritan Medical Center   (United States)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEART ENZYME;

AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICATION ERROR; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; CELLULITIS; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83655192058     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01082.x     Document Type: Article

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