Impact of inpatient Care in Emergency Department on outcomes: a quasi-experimental cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitals around the world are faced with the issue of boarders in emergency department (ED), patients marked for admission but with no available inpatient bed. Boarder status is known to be associated with delayed inpatient care and suboptimal outcomes. A new care delivery system was developed in our institution where boarders received full inpatient care from a designated medical team, acute medical team (AMT), while still residing at ED. The current study examines the impact of this AMT intervention on patient outcomes.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective quasi-experimental cohort study to analyze outcomes between the AMT intervention and conventional care in a 1250-bed acute care tertiary academic hospital in Singapore. Study participants included patients wh

SUBMITTER: Lateef A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557060 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature