For children with behavioral conditions, psychiatric co-management in the observation unit of a pediatric emergency department was associated with shorter stays and fewer inpatient admissions, an ...

Emergency department observation units (EDOUs) have been shown to decrease length of stay and improve cost effectiveness. Yet, compared with noncancer patients, patients with cancer are placed in ...

Research published in Health Affairs suggests increased use of hospital observation units could help save $3.1 billion in healthcare costs each year. A hospital observation unit is a dedicated space ...

Boston, MA – Previous research has shown that observation units in a hospital can be an efficient way to care for certain patients, but only about one-third of hospitals in the United States have such ...

Introduction: There are nearly 120 million visits to emergency departments each year, one for every three people in the United States. Fifty percent of all hospital admissions come from this group, a ...

September 28, 2012 — Maximizing the potential use of dedicated hospital observation units could save billions of dollars in healthcare resources annually, according to results from a study published ...