Risk Factors, Costs, and Impacts of ED Boarding
Completed
Conditions studied: 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)
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07532564
- Run by
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- People needed
- 30486
- Starts
- 2022-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2025-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-17
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 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.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients admitted to cardiology, cancer center, surgical services
- Patients admitted to not floor level status (IMC/ICU)
Where it is running
- University of Maryland Medical Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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