Risk Factors, Costs, and Impacts of ED Boarding
CompletedNCT07532564
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the risk factors, costs, and operational impacts of emergency department boarding (patients admitted to the hospital but remaining in the emergency department awaiting placement on an inpatient floor) The main questions it aims to answer is: 1. What characteristics of patients make them more likely to experience ED boarding? 2. What is the impact of ED boarding on costs of health care? 3. How do high-boarding environments affect the clinical care of all patients in the emergency department, including those that do not board themselves. Data will be secondary in nature, collected in the regular Participants already taking intervention A as part of their regular medical care for RA will answer online survey questions about their joint pain for 5 years.
Study details
- Official title
- Cost of Emergency Department Boarding for Hospitalized Patients in a Statewide Medical System
- Conditions
- Stroke (CVA) or TIA
- Diabetes
- Asthma (Diagnosis)
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Sepsis
- Hypertension
- Heart Failure
- Pneumonia
- Urinary Tract Infection (Diagnosis)
- Chest Pain
- Psychiatric Disorder
- Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Start date
- 2022-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-12-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * adults (\> 18 years old) presenting to UMMS system hospitals ED * Patients hospitalized by inpatient or observation status over study period (2022-2025) * Admitted to a service that directly manages boarding patient in the ED. At UMMC, patient should be admitted to an internal medicine team Med 1-4, Med 6, Med 5, med/surg/tele level (no IMC/ICU) and neurology floor level. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients admitted to cardiology, cancer center, surgical services * Patients admitted to not floor level status (IMC/ICU)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07532564