Boarding Duration in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Delirium and Severe Agitation

Joshua W Joseph; Noémie Elhadad; Melissa L P Mattison; Lauren M Nentwich; Sharon A Levine; Edward R Marcantonio; Maura Kennedy

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.16343

Boarding Duration in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Delirium and Severe Agitation

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jun 3;7(6):e2416343. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.16343.

Authors

Joshua W Joseph^{1

2

3}, Noémie Elhadad^{3

4}, Melissa L P Mattison^{5

6}, Lauren M Nentwich^{2

7}, Sharon A Levine^{5

6}, Edward R Marcantonio^{6

8}, Maura Kennedy^{2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁶ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examines the risk factors for developing delirium and/or agitation in patients in the emergency department waiting for an inpatient bed.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Delirium*
Emergency Service, Hospital* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Inpatients / statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay / statistics & numerical data
Male
Middle Aged
Psychomotor Agitation*
Time Factors