Factors Associated with Longer Length of Stay for Mental Health Emergency Department Patients
| Autor: | Michael T. Cudnik, Susan White, Robert J. Stephens, Emily S. Patterson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 47:412-419 |
| ISSN: | 0736-4679 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jemermed.2014.04.040 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Mental health patients can experience long lengths of stay in the emergency department (ED). Reducing boarding times for mental health patients might improve care for all ED patients. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify patient factors that are correlated with extremely long lengths of stay (EL-LOS) for mental health patients in the ED. METHODS A retrospective, case-control study compared mental health patients experiencing lengths of stay longer than 24 h to those with lengths of stay |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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