NCT07532564Completed
Risk Factors, Costs, and Impacts of ED Boarding
Cost of Emergency Department Boarding for Hospitalized Patients in a Statewide Medical System
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the risk factors, costs, and operational impacts of emergency department boarding (patients admitted to the hospital but remaining in the emergency department awaiting placement on an inpatient floor) The main questions it aims to answer is: 1. What characteristics of patients make them more likely to experience ED boarding? 2. What is the impact of ED boarding on costs of health care? 3. How do high-boarding environments affect the clinical care of all patients in the emergency department, including those that do not board themselves. Data will be secondary in nature, collected in the regular Participants already taking intervention A as part of their regular medical care for RA will answer online survey questions about their joint pain for 5 years.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 30486 (actual)
- First submitted
- 9 Apr 2026
- Start date
- Jan 2022
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Diseases
- Heart failure, Stroke, Sickle cell disease, Asthma, COPD, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT07532564
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 30486
- From Jan 2022 to the primary completion date, Dec 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Patients admitted to cardiology, cancer center, surgical services
Other
- Patients admitted to not floor level status (IMC/ICU)
Who the study is looking for
- adults (\> 18 years old) presenting to UMMS system hospitals ED
- Patients hospitalized by inpatient or observation status over study period (2022-2025)
- Admitted to a service that directly manages boarding patient in the ED. At UMMC, patient should be admitted to an internal medicine team Med 1-4, Med 6, Med 5, med/surg/tele level (no IMC/ICU) and neurology floor level.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
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