DOI: 10.1001/jama.2026.13302 ISSN: 0098-7484
Time to Inpatient Management for Boarding Emergency Department Patients
Alexander T. Janke, Adrian D. Haimovich, Meaghan Cussen, Christopher M. Fung, Margaret E. Samuels-Kalow, DaMarcus E. Baymon, Yosef Berlyand, Laura G. Burke, Brian W. Patterson, Daniel J. Hekman, Martin S. Copenhaver, Joshua D. Niforatos, Amber K. Sabbatini, M. Kennedy Hall, Ula Hwang, Natalia Sifnugel, Rohit B. Sangal, Arjun K. Venkatesh, George Glass, Richard Andrew Taylor, Rachel M. Skains, Russell L. Griffin, Peter S. Antkowiak, Seth Gemme, Michael Gottlieb, Eric Moyer, Carl T. Berdahl, Sam S. Torbati, Larry A. Nathanson, Evan L. Leventhal, Molly M. Jeffery, Brendan M. Carr, Tehreem Rehman, Samuel E. Sondheim, Kenneth M. Lee, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Ari B. FriedmanThis study examines the patient- and hospital-level variation in time to initiation of inpatient management among patients admitted to general medical services.