Validation of the Emergency Department Work Index in a Pediatric Freestanding Community Emergency Department.
Journal
Pediatric emergency care
ISSN: 1535-1815
Titre abrégé: Pediatr Emerg Care
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8507560
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
25 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024
Historique:
medline:
26
7
2024
pubmed:
26
7
2024
entrez:
25
7
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
The Emergency Department Work Index (EDWIN) is a validated overcrowding score shown to correlate well with staff assessment of adult emergency department (ED) overcrowding and the potential need for diversion. It derives from the number of staffed ED beds, attending physicians on duty, patients within each triage category, and admitted patients. To date, no study has validated EDWIN in a pediatric community ED setting. We aim to determine if EDWIN correlates with established overcrowding measures and provider perception of overcrowding within a freestanding, community-based pediatric ED. In this prospective observational study at a freestanding, community-based pediatric ED, EDWIN was calculated hourly over 8 weeks throughout the year. EDWIN was compared with other objective and previously established ED metrics of overcrowding, including rates of patients who left without being seen (LWBS), average time from arrival to ED room, average length of stay (LOS), ED occupancy rates, and number of patients in the waiting room. Furthermore, EDWIN was compared with provider perception of overcrowding by surveying providers 6 times a day during the study period using novel, real-time, longitudinal, electronic health record-based survey distribution methodology. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated to characterize the associations between EDWIN vs provider perception and EDWIN vs ED metrics. ANOVA and Tukey HSD were used to compare means of ED metrics of overcrowding across EDWIN severity categories. Five hundred eleven provider perception survey responses were collected from July 2022 through January 2023. EDWIN directly correlated with all measures of overcrowding, including provider perception of crowdedness (rho = 0.67), LWBS rates (rho = 0.44), average time from arrival to ED room (rho = 0.74), average LOS (rho = 0.70), ED occupancy rates (rho = 0.68), and number of patients in the waiting room (rho = 0.65). All findings were statistically significant (P < 0.05). Our findings suggest that EDWIN is an accurate tool to measure overcrowding in a freestanding, community-based pediatric ED.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39051989
doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003247
pii: 00006565-990000000-00500
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
G.S. reports no conflict of interest. E.S. reports no conflict of interest. L.R. reports no conflict of interest. J.H. reports no conflict of interest. S.H. reports no conflict of interest. M.R. reports no conflict of interest. B.B. reports no conflict of interest.
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