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Is It Safe to Admit Boarder Patients to Inpatient Hallways?

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Ted Bowles, Jr, MD, 23 Nov 2009 5:02 PM EST

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It's interesting that 25% of the patients admitted to hallways were "assigned a inpatient bed immediately on arrival to the inpatient unit" and another 25% were in a room within an hour. It certainly makes one wonder how these beds materialized so quickly. Is the old phenomena of "bed-blocking" still alive as it was eons ago, when I was a resident. Perhaps it would behoove us to resort to the old practice of sending an EM resident to make "bed availability rounds" on the various floors when our boarders are clogging our hallways.

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John v Brown, 21 Nov 2009 12:43 AM EST

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I could suggest some other third-world ideas that work, too. That might come in useful when certain parts of the USA become third-world enclaves.

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