Boarding of critically Ill patients in the emergency department.

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Objectives

Emergency department boarding is the practice of caring for admitted patients in the emergency department after hospital admission, and boarding has been a growing problem in the United States. Boarding of the critically ill has achieved specific attention because of its association with poor clinical outcomes. Accordingly, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians convened a Task Force to understand the implications of emergency department boarding of the critically ill. The objective of this article is to review the U.S. literature on (1) the frequency of emergency department boarding among the critically ill, (2) the outcomes associated with critical care patient boarding, and (3) local strategies developed to mitigate the

SUBMITTER: Mohr NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493502 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature