Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT07532564
Risk Factors, Costs, and Impacts of ED Boarding
Cost of Emergency Department Boarding for Hospitalized Patients in a Statewide Medical System
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 30,486 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
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.
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)
Timeline
- Start date
- 2022-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-12-31
- Completion
- 2025-12-31
- First posted
- 2026-04-16
- Last updated
- 2026-04-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07532564. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.