$500,00 in grants to target ED arrivals and departures
Case Management Weekly, January 3, 2006
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Ten doctors in Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Massachusetts are to receive $50,000 grants to study various aspects of ED safety. One of the grants will focus on "boarding," the situation where patients are examined, treated, and admitted to a hospital, but no bed is available, so they are kept waiting in the ED, sometimes for hours, until space opens up. Another grant is being allocated to study ways to improve the discharge process.
The boarding study will focus on the medical records of 2,000 patients who stayed for long periods at hospitals in the Boston-area. Doctors have long been concerned that boarding exposes them to increased liability in caring for patients in overcrowded settings. Source: The Boston Globe
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