Ellie Rizzo: 10 Findings On State Of ED Capacity
Submitted By Anonymous, Created 10/07/2014 - 09:49
- 75 percent of ED visits were at nonteaching hospitals
- 66 percent of ED visits were at nonprofit hospitals
- More than 50 percent of ED visits were in urban settings
- Patients admitted to the hospital spent about four hours in the ED. One-third of that time was spent after admission but before an inpatient bed became available
- Patients not admitted to a hospital spent two hours in the ED, one-forth of which was spent in the waiting room
- Urban ED patients spent more time waiting and in the ED than rural patients
- Public/teaching hospital ED patients spent the most time in the ED of patients at all types of the facilities
- More than 50 percent of EDs were able to move at least 90 percent of ED patients requiring hospital admissions out of the ED within eight hours
- Less than 25 percent of EDs discharged at least 90 percent of nonadmitted patients within four hours
Source: Becker's Hospital Review
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