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Mar 13, 2024 · Boarding—or waiting in the ER for a bed after admission—is a worsening problem in hospitals. Solutions exist but many hospitals are not addressing the issue.
- Jesse Pines
Apr 1, 2024 · Health correspondent, BBC News. More than 250 patients a week could be dying unnecessarily, due to long waits in A&E in England, according to analysis of NHS data. The Royal College of Emergency...
Apr 1, 2024 · NHS data for England shows more than 1.5 million patients waited 12 hours or more in major emergency departments in 2023, of which around one million were waiting to be admitted to a hospital bed ...
Jan 24, 2022 · Tragically, nearly 434,000 of those attendees would pass away within a month, a statistic that became more likely after five hours of waiting. If a patient had to wait between six to eight hours, they were, on average, 8 percent more likely to die of any cause in the next 30 days.
Nov 30, 2019 · Patients in hospital ERs can wait hours for inpatient beds to open up. The delays can be maddening. A solution for this long-standing problem has been elusive in the U.S., despite...
Feb 7, 2024 · Hospital bed shortages mean some who go to the ER can be stuck there for days or weeks. Yet a federal program meant to ease patient boarding is about to lose its funding.
Nov 15, 2023 · Nov. 15, 2023 – Older people who wait overnight in the emergency department due to hospital bed shortages are more likely to die or have new health problems during their stays, according to a...
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