Effect of emergency critical care nurses and emergency department boarding time on in-hospital mortality in critically ill patients

We hypothesized that establishing a program of specialized emergency critical care (ECC) nurses in the ED would improve mortality of ICU patients boarding in the ED.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 28, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jason Nesbitt, Tsuyoshi Mitarai, Garett Chan, Jennifer G. Wilson, Kian Niknam, Matthew J.R. Nudelman, Cristopher Cinkowski, Michael A. Kohn Source Type: research