Emergency Department Boarding, Inpatient Census, and Interhospital Transfer Acceptances
In this cross-sectional study of IHT requests, the severity of ED boarding and inpatient census were associated with decreased IHT acceptance, suggesting that overcrowded referral hospitals face tradeoffs as they seek to fulfill seemingly conflicting obligations to safely care for locally hospitalized patients and accept regional patients seeking transfer.
Authors
- Kjirsten Swenson
- Marta L. McCrum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2543-1635)
- Keith E. Kocher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-8859)
- Peter B. Pruitt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1644-8056)
- Margaret Greenwood‐Ericksen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3072-8401)
- Gabriel Paul
- Larissa Myaskovsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7268-1517)
- Neil S. Kamdar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1898-1594)
- Kori Sauser Zachrison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-3257)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-05-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.12299
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.01
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality