Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 3 , Pages 381-385, September 2009

A Pilot Study Examining Undesirable Events Among Emergency Department–Boarded Patients Awaiting Inpatient Beds

Presented as a poster at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, April 2005, Boston, MA.

  • Shan W. Liu, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Department of Emergency Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Shan Liu, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, 55 Fruit Street, Zero Emerson, Room 358, Boston, MA 02114; 617-726-4809, fax 617-724-0917
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  • Stephen H. Thomas, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Department of Emergency Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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  • James A. Gordon, MD, MPA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Department of Emergency Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Azita G. Hamedani, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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  • Joel S. Weissman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Received 16 August 2008; received in revised form 5 January 2009 and 28 January 2009; accepted 2 February 2009. published online 23 March 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: SWL, JAG, and JSW conceived the study and designed the study. SWL performed initial chart abstraction. SHT and AGH performed secondary implicit chart review. SWL managed the data. SHT provided statistical advice. SWL drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. SWL takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 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. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Publication date: Available online March 13, 2009.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00114-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.02.001

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 3 , Pages 381-385, September 2009

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