The relationship between inpatient discharge timing and emergency department boarding

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 186-196

  Powell, Emilie S ^a   Khare, Rahul K ^a   Venkatesh, Arjun K ^b   Van Roo, Ben D ^c   Adams, James G ^a   Reinhardt, Gilles ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

admitting patients; boarding; crowding; discharging patients; operations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857049100     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.06.028     Document Type: Article

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