Boarding of critically ill patients in the emergency department

NM Mohr, BT Wessman, B Bassin… - Critical care …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
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 …

Association between boarding in the emergency department and in-hospital mortality: a systematic review

Z Boudi, D Lauque, M Alsabri, L Östlundh, C Oneyji… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Importance Boarding in the emergency department (ED) is a critical indicator of quality of
care for hospitals. It is defined as the time between the admission decision and departure …

[HTML][HTML] White paper on early critical care services in low resource settings

LI Losonczy, A Papali, S Kivlehan… - Annals of global …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract This White Paper has been formally accepted for support by the International
Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and by the World Federation of Intensive and …

Patient and hospital characteristics predict prolonged emergency department length of stay and in-hospital mortality: a nationwide analysis in Korea

KS Lee, HS Min, JY Moon, D Lim, Y Kim, E Ko… - BMC Emergency …, 2022 - Springer
Background Prolonged emergency department length of stay (EDLOS) in critically ill patients
leads to increased mortality. This nationwide study investigated patient and hospital …

Educating for adaptive expertise: case examples along the medical education continuum

MV Pusic, E Hall, H Billings, J Branzetti… - Advances in Health …, 2022 - Springer
Adaptive expertise represents the combination of both efficient problem-solving for clinical
encounters with known solutions, as well as the ability to learn and innovate when faced …

Association of an emergency critical care program with survival and early downgrade among critically ill medical patients in the emergency department

T Mitarai, AJ Gordon, MJR Nudelman… - Critical care …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether implementation of an Emergency Critical Care
Program (ECCP) is associated with improved survival and early downgrade of critically ill …

Resuscitation room management of patients with non-traumatic critical illness in the emergency department (OBSERvE-DUS-study)

J Dziegielewski, FC Schulte, C Jung, G Wolff… - BMC Emergency …, 2023 - Springer
Background Few studies address the care of critically ill non-traumatic patients in the
emergency department (ED). The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiology …

Cost-effectiveness of an Emergency Department–Based Intensive Care Unit

BS Bassin, NL Haas, N Sefa, R Medlin… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Value in health care is quality per unit cost (V= Q/C), and an emergency
department–based intensive care unit (ED-ICU) model has been associated with improved …

Critical care delivery solutions in the emergency department: evolving models in caring for ICU boarders

N Jayaprakash, J Pflaum-Carlson… - Annals of emergency …, 2020 - Elsevier
The National Academy of Medicine has identified emergency department (ED) crowding as
a health care delivery problem. Because the ED is a portal of entry to the hospital, 25% of all …

An emergency department–based intensive care unit is associated with decreased hospital and intensive care unit utilization for diabetic ketoacidosis

NL Haas, SP Whitmore, JA Cranford… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Many emergency department (ED) patients in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) are
admitted to an inpatient intensive care unit (ICU), while ICU capacity is under increasing …