According to the researchers, 37 percent of all admissions from the ED spend less than two nights in the hospital, and 23 percent of all ED admissions have a type 1 unit-eligible diagnosis, meaning those patients could avoid inpatient admission. Two-thirds of U.S. hospitals deliver observatio...
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ER patients not ready for home can receive care in these units instead of being admitted as inpatients. (HealthDay)—Wider use of hospital observation units could save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year, a new study indicates. An observation unit is a space near or wi...
关键词: Observation Observation unit Clinical decision unit Emergency and Hospital Medicine DOI: 10.1007/s40138-013-0038-y 被引量: 8 年份: 2014 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 Springer 相似文献 参考文献 引证文献Gravitational Waves in General Relativity. VII. Waves from Axi-...
For people presenting with acute chest pain, how effective and cost-effective is care in a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care? Cluster randomised controlled trial. Hospital admissions were significantly less likely with the chest pain observation unit (CPOU) compared with routine ...
only 37 % of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain were placed under observation when the emergency department observation unit was being used compared with 69 % of patients with chest pain being placed under observation when the in-hospital observation unit was being used...
Heart failure causes substantial morbidity and mortality in the United States and accounts for a higher proportion of Medicare costs than any other disease. Most of these costs result from the high rate of hospital admissions and protracted length of stay associated with episodes of acute ...
Any patient in the hospital for 3 days or less who did not undergo surgery or other inpatient procedure, and who was admitted through the ED, was considered a candidate for the observation unit. Results: Of 1,840 admissions, 147 patients met the admission criteria. Only 48 (32.2%) could ...
During a 12-month period, 20,838 patients with acute traumatic injuries were seen in the Emergency Department (ED) of Denver General Hospital. Of these patients, 520 (2.5%) were admitted to the ED Observation Unit, a seven-bed acute care unit situated within the ED and sufficient data were...
Study objective: Emergency department observation units are cost-effective alternatives to hospital admission for selected patients. However, the use and effectiveness of these units in the elderly population is unclear. We sought to describe the use of an ED observation unit by elderly patients (≥...