News spotlight: Study finds hallway medicine a good defense against ED crowding
Nurse Leader Weekly, November 3, 2008
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Hospitals battling emergency department (ED) congestion might want to consider directing patients to the hallways.
A recent study conducted at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY, found moving patients to hallways in the hospital a safer alternative than boarding patients in the ED. The practice, which transfers patients ready for admission to beds in upper-floor hallways rather than keeping them in the ED, was examined in more than 2,000 patients over four years.
Dangers of ED boarding surfaced in a 2007 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) survey. Of almost 1,500 emergency physicians who participated, 13% cited personal experiences of patients dying due to ED boarding.
Lead author and clinical director of the hospital's emergency department, Peter Viccellio, MD, is scheduled to disclose the entire findings of the study at a meeting with ACEP on November 4.
Source: Associated Press
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