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cord-007865-1oyl6clq	Walsh, Paul	Patients Would Prefer Ward to Emergency Department Boarding While Awaiting an Inpatient Bed	2008-02-21		.txt	text/plain	2437	135	58	title: Patients Would Prefer Ward to Emergency Department Boarding While Awaiting an Inpatient Bed Boarding of admitted patients in the Emergency Department (ED), rather than in inpatient care areas, is widespread. The practice of holding admitted patients in the Emergency Department (ED) until an inpatient bed becomes available (commonly called "boarding") is widespread (1, 2) . These were convenience samples (dependent on research assistant [RA] availability) of 1) patients waiting to be seen without a disposition, 2) visitors of patients, and 3) admitted patients who were being held in the ED while awaiting an inpatient bed. The purpose of sampling these three groups was to determine the opinion of members of the general public with an immediate interest in the subject (visitors), non-boarding patients, and those patients who were actually being boarded in the ED. Emergency department overcrowding: patient preference for boarding hallway location	./cache/cord-007865-1oyl6clq.txt	./txt/cord-007865-1oyl6clq.txt