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See Latest ArticlesIncreasing Length of Stay Among Adult Visits to U.S. Emergency Departments, 2001–2005
Academic Emergency Medicine, 06/17/09
Herring A et al. - Emergency department LOS in the United States is increasing, especially for critically ill patients for whom time-sensitive interventions are most important. The disparity of longer ED LOS for African Americans and Hispanics is not improving.
Andrew Herring, 06/17/09
| Our study suggests a worrisome increase in the length of time critically ill patients spend in the emergency department. Without increased allocations resources to care for these patients in the ED or to facilitate more rapid transfer to a critical ward we are at risk of compromising the care of critically patients presenting to US emergency departments. Minorities are clearly more negatively effected by prolonged ED LOS. |
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