Appropriateness of patient transfer from a nursing home to an acute‐care hospital: A study of emergency room visits and hospital admissions

H Bergman, AM Carfield - Journal of the American Geriatrics …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… with subsequent admission for 34%, and transfers to the emergency room with … patients
transferred died in the emergency room. On the basis of the outcome measure, 7% of all transfers

Patient transfer from nursing home to emergency department: outcomes and policy implications

JS Jones, PR Dwyer, LJ White… - … emergency medicine, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… written policies regarding emergency care, patient transfers, and discharges. The medical
director is … and supervision of physician services and the medical care of residents.” When the …

Emergency department transfers and transfer relationships in United States hospitals

DR Kindermann, RL Mutter… - … Emergency Medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
patients transferred across settings. (The HCUP SEDD and SID for each of these nine states
are available to AHRQ through strict data use agreements. Many, but not all, participating …

Interhospital transfers from US emergency departments: implications for resource utilization, patient safety, and regionalization

J Nacht, M Macht, AA Ginde - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Of the patients transferred from 2005 through … care for those visits resulting in transfer to
those resulting in admission at the index hospital and 2) describe the primary reasons for transfer

Patient transfer forms enhance key information between nursing homes and emergency department

P Dalawari, J Duggan, V Vangimalla, M Paniagua… - Geriatric Nursing, 2011 - Elsevier
… providing emergency department patient care was significantly increased with the use of a
transfer form. … There were 306 NH-to-ED patient transfers that met our study inclusion criteria. …

Nursing home patients transferred by ambulance to a VA emergency department

HD Kerr, JC Byrd - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… ambulance transfers from community nursing homes to a VA emergency department. The
objectives of the study were to describe the process and outcomes of transferred patients and …

Modeling and optimization of resources in multi-emergency department settings with patient transfer

N Nezamoddini, MT Khasawneh - Operations Research for Health Care, 2016 - Elsevier
… or not belong to the same hospital system. Therefore, this paper investigates the effect of
transferring non-emergency patients to other hospitals in multi-hospital settings. The strategy of …

The association between transfer of emergency department boarders to inpatient hallways and mortality: a 4-year experience

A Viccellio, C Santora, AJ Singer, HC Thode Jr… - … of emergency medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
transfer of admitted patients from the emergency department (ED) to inpatient hallways would
be feasible and not create patient … not result in excess mortality or ICU patient transfers. …

Emergency patient transfers from rural hospitals: a regional study

JTB Rourke, MA Kennard - … Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2001 - cambridge.org
patients transferred from the ED; it does not include transfers of patients admitted to hospital
and then transferred … for more extensive emergency patient transfer data. A computerized ED …

Patient transfers: medical practice as social triage.

DU Himmelstein, S Woolhandler… - … Journal of Public …, 1984 - ajph.aphapublications.org
patient transfers from 14 ty studied, transfer is a common and potentially dangerous medical
… in Alameda County with an emergency room transferred at least 11 patients to the county …