Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 5 , Pages 575-585.e2 , May 2009

Adding More Beds to the Emergency Department or Reducing Admitted Patient Boarding Times: Which Has a More Significant Influence on Emergency Department Congestion?

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2007, Chicago, IL.

  • Rahul K. Khare, MD

      Affiliations

    • Northwestern University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • Institute for Healthcare Studies and Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Rahul K. Khare, MD, 259 E Erie St, Suite 100, Chicago, IL 60611
    • ,
  • Emilie S. Powell, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Northwestern University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Gilles Reinhardt, PhD

      Affiliations

    • DePaul University, Department of Management, Chicago, IL
    • ,
  • Martin Lucenti, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Northwestern University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Received 2 November 2007 ,Revised 24 June 2008 ,Accepted 7 July 2008.

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 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Research for this paper was done while Dr. Khare was a National Research Service Award (T32HS000078) postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Studies at Northwestern University under an institutional award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

 Author contributions: RKK conceived the study. ML collected the patient data. RKK, ESP, and GR built the model. GR analyzed the data. ESP drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. RKK takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

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 Publication date: Available online September 9, 2008.

PII: S0196-0644(08)01496-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.009

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 53, Issue 5 , Pages 575-585.e2 , May 2009

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