Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 4 , Pages 487-491, October 2009

The Association Between Transfer of Emergency Department Boarders to Inpatient Hallways and Mortality: A 4-Year Experience

Presented at the ACEP Research Forum, October 2008, Chicago, IL.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Received 3 November 2008; received in revised form 26 January 2009 and 23 February 2009; accepted 3 March 2009. published online 06 April 2009.

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 Supervising editors: Debra E. Houry, MD, MPH; Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Author contributions: AV conceived the study, and obtained research funding. AV, AJS, and HCT supervised data collection and analysis. HCT provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. AJS drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. AV 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. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Funded in part by a research grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation.

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 Publication date: Available online April 3, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00238-8

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.03.005

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