PMID: 8959165Dec 1, 1996Paper

Do admitted patients held in the emergency department impact the throughput of treat-and-release patients?

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Jeffrey BazarianJ Chodosh

Abstract

To examine the impact of reducing ED "boarders" (through the use of a short-stay inpatient medicine unit) on the amount of time that treat-and-release patients spend in the ED. A retrospective analysis of hours spent in the ED was made at a university hospital teaching ED for treat-and-release patients in 4 clinical categories: chest pain, asthma exacerbation, sickle-cell crisis, and seizure. The average hours per patient spent in the ED during the 4-month intervals before (August-November 1993) and after (August-November 1994) the establishment of the short-stay medicine unit were compared. Data were analyzed using the 2-tailed, unpaired t-test. This short-stay inpatient medicine unit received on average 135 patients per month from the ED, with an average length of stay of 2.4 days. The mean (+/-SD) number of admitted patients per day waiting in the ED > 8 hours for an inpatient bed dropped from 9.6 +/- 4.2., before the institution of this unit, to 2.3 +/- 2.6. There was a significant reduction in the average number of hours spent in the ED by treat-and-release patients with chest pain (from 7.3 +/- 6.0 to 5.5 +/- 4.8 hr/patient, p < 0.001) and asthma exacerbation (from 5.0 +/- 3.6 to 4.2 +/- 2.9 hr/patient, p < 0.05), but not...Continue Reading

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