Factors associated with low-acuity hospital admissions in a public safety-net setting: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given system-level focus on avoidance of unnecessary hospitalizations, better understanding admission decision-making is of utility. Our study sought to identify factors associated with hospital admission versus discharge from the Emergency Department (ED) for a population of patients who were assessed as having low medical acuity at time of decision.

Methods

Using an institutional database, we identified ED admission requests received from March 1, 2018 to Feb 28, 2019 that were assessed by a physician at the time of request as potentially inappropriate based on lack of medical acuity. Focused chart review was performed to extract data related to patient demographics, socioeconomic information, measures of illness, and system-level factors such as previous health

SUBMITTER: Panahpour Eslami N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446119 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature