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Measuring the Opportunity Loss of Time Spent Boarding Admitted Patients in the Emergency Department: A Multihospital Analysis.
Journal of Healthcare Management 2009, March-April, 54, 2
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Emergency department (ED) crowding is an international crisis affecting the timeliness and quality of patient care. Boarding of admitted patients in the ED is recognized as a major contributor to ED crowding. The opportunity loss of this time is the benefit or value it could produce if it were used for something else. In crowded EDs, the typical alternative use of this time is to treat patients waiting to be seen. Various ED performance benchmarks related to inpatient boarding have been proposed, but they are not commonly reported and have yet to be evaluated to determine whether they correlate with the opportunity loss of time used for boarding.
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