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Hospitalist-led medicine emergency department team: Associations with throughput, timeliness of patient care, and satisfaction
BACKGROUND: Admitted patients boarding in the emergency department (ED) leads to hospital diversion. Active bed management and care for boarded patients can improve throughput. We developed a hospital medicine ED (HMED) team to participate in active bed management, and to care for boarded patients, to decrease diversion and improve throughput