Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alexander T Janke; Edward R Melnick; Arjun K Venkatesh

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33964

Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Sep 1;5(9):e2233964. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33964.

Authors

Alexander T Janke^{1

2}, Edward R Melnick¹, Arjun K Venkatesh^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² VA Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, National Clinician Scholars Program, Ann Arbor.
³ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses national benchmarking data to evaluate hospital occupancy and emergency department boarding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Emergency Service, Hospital
Hospitals
Humans
Pandemics
Patient Admission

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States