Association between boarding in the emergency department and in-hospital mortality: A systematic review.
Zoubir BoudiDominique LauqueMohamed AlsabriLinda ÖstlundhChurchill OneyjiAnna KhalemskyCarlos Lojo RialShan W LiuCarlos A CamargoElhadi Husein AburawiMartin MoeckelAnna SlagmanMichael ChristAdam SingerKarim TazarourteNiels K RathlevShamai A GrossmanAbdelouahab BellouPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Our systematic review did not find a strong evidence for the association between ED boarding and IHM but there is a tendency toward this association. Further well-controlled, international multicenter studies are needed to demonstrate whether this association exists and whether there is a specific EDB time cut-off that results in increased IHM.