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Health systems have generated a number of strategies to mitigate these effects. Health systems have developed multiple mitigation strategies to address emergency department boarding of critically ill patients, including emergency department-based interventions, hospital-based interventions, and emergency department-based resuscitation care units.Д®mergency department boarding of critically ill patients was common and was associated with worse clinical outcomes. Prolonged boarding in the emergency department has been associated with longer duration of mechanical ventilation, longer ICU and hospital length of stay, and higher mortality. Boarding literature is limited by variation in the definitions used for boarding and variation in the facilities studied (boarding ranges from 2% to 88% of ICU admissions). literature on (1) the frequency of emergency department boarding among the critically ill, (2) the outcomes associated with critical care patient boarding, and (3) local strategies developed to mitigate the impact of emergency department critical care boarding on patient outcomes.Д®mergency department-based boarding of the critically ill patient is common, but no nationally representative frequency estimates has been reported. The objective of this article is to review the U.S. Accordingly, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians convened a Task Force to understand the implications of emergency department boarding of the critically ill. Boarding of the critically ill has achieved specific attention because of its association with poor clinical outcomes. 11 Department of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.Д®mergency department boarding is the practice of caring for admitted patients in the emergency department after hospital admission, and boarding has been a growing problem in the United States.

10 Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH.

9 Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC.

Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

7 Department of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, Kettering Health System, Dayton, OH.

6 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.

5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.

4 Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Palliative and Hospice Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Critical Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2 Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St.

1 Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

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