A quantitative assessment of emergency department boarding and its association with decreases in operational efficiency: A multicenter nationwide study

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University Department of Emergency Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio, USA.

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Multicenter Study

Anthony M Napoli et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Sep.

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. 2022 Sep;29(9):1135-1137.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14560. Epub 2022 Aug 5.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University Department of Emergency Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio, USA.

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Keywords: ED operations; ED throughput; boarding; reducing length of stay.

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