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Likelihood of admission to hospital from the emergency department is not universally associated with hospital bed occupancy at the time of admission

Tolestam Heyman, Ellen LU orcid ; Engström, Martin LU ; Baigi, Amir LU ; Dahlén Holmqvist, Lina and Lingman, Markus (2021) In International Journal of Health Planning and Management 36(2). p.353-363
Abstract

Background: The decision to admit into the hospital from the emergency department (ED) is considered to be important and challenging. The aim was to assess whether previously published results suggesting an association between hospital bed occupancy and likelihood of hospital admission from the ED can be reproduced in a different study population. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of attendances at two Swedish EDs in 2015 was performed. Admission to hospital was assessed in relation to hospital bed occupancy together with other clinically relevant variables. Hospital bed occupancy was categorized and univariate and multivariate logistic regression were performed. Results: In total 89,503 patient attendances were included in the... (More)

Background: The decision to admit into the hospital from the emergency department (ED) is considered to be important and challenging. The aim was to assess whether previously published results suggesting an association between hospital bed occupancy and likelihood of hospital admission from the ED can be reproduced in a different study population. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of attendances at two Swedish EDs in 2015 was performed. Admission to hospital was assessed in relation to hospital bed occupancy together with other clinically relevant variables. Hospital bed occupancy was categorized and univariate and multivariate logistic regression were performed. Results: In total 89,503 patient attendances were included in the final analysis. Of those, 29.1% resulted in admission within 24 h. The mean hospital bed occupancy by the hour of the two hospitals was 87.1% (SD 7.6). In both the univariate and multivariate analysis, odds ratio for admission within 24 h from the ED did not decrease significantly with an increasing hospital bed occupancy. Conclusions: A negative association between admission to hospital and occupancy level, as reported elsewhere, was not replicated. This suggests that the previously shown association might not be universal but may vary across sites due to setting specific circumstances.

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admission rate, disposition decision, emergency department, emergency medicine, hospital bed occupancy
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International Journal of Health Planning and Management
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36
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2
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353 - 363
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Wiley-Blackwell
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  • scopus:85092324724
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0749-6753
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10.1002/hpm.3086
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AIR Lund - Artificially Intelligent use of Registers
Resource Management in the Emergency Department by using Machine Learning
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English
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