Higher Inpatient Medical Surgical Bed Occupancy Extends Admitted Patients’ Stay
OBJECTIVE: Determine the effect that increased medical surgical (med/surg) bed occupancy has on the time interval from admission order to arrival in the bed for the patients admitted from the emergency department (ED).METHODS: This retrospective observational study compares the total hospital bed oc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2009-05-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x00f16k |