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NCT07532564
Risk Factors, Costs, and Impacts of ED Boarding
Conditions: Stroke (CVA) or TIA, Diabetes, Asthma (Diagnosis), COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Sepsis, Hypertension, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Urinary Tract Infection (Diagnosis), Chest Pain, Psychiatric Disorder, Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
Sex: All
Ages: 18 Years – N/A
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Enrollment: 30486
Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore
Location: University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore Maryland
Summary
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the risk factors, costs, and operational impacts of emergency department boarding (patients admitted to the hospital but remaining in the emergency department awaiting placement on an inpatient floor)
The main questions it aims to answer is:
1. What characteristics of patients make them more likely to experience ED boarding?
2. What is the impact of ED boarding on costs of health care?
3. How do high-boarding environments affect the clinical care of all patients in the emergency department, including those that do not board themselves.
Data will be secondary in nature, collected in the regular Participants already taking intervention A as part of their regular medical care for RA will answer online survey questions about their joint pain for 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* adults (\> 18 years old) presenting to UMMS system hospitals ED
* Patients hospitalized by inpatient or observation status over study period (2022-2025)
* Admitted to a service that directly manages boarding patient in the ED. At UMMC, patient should be admitted to an internal medicine team Med 1-4, Med 6, Med 5, med/surg/tele level (no IMC/ICU) and neurology floor level.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients admitted to cardiology, cancer center, surgical services
* Patients admitted to not floor level status (IMC/ICU)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07532564). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.
