An observational study in Stroke (CVA) or TIA, Diabetes and Asthma (Diagnosis), sponsored by University of Maryland, Baltimore. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-17.
Sponsored by University of Maryland, Baltimore · Observational
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:
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.
7,283 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,013 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 30,486 is above the median of 160 across 1,692 observational studies indexed under Stroke.
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Of its 90 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 63 (70%) have results posted.
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Adult patients admitted to the hospital under inpatient or observation status from the adult emergency department at an academic medical center, to floor/telemetry inpatient services that directly managed boarded patients in the ED (medicine, family medicine, neurology)
Exclusion Criteria:
Adult patients admitted to floor level services that directly manage patients in the ED (medicine, family medicine, neurology)
Boarding Time
Time between admission order placement and ED departure. Only patients admitted to services that routinely take primary care responsibility for boarding patients in the ED will be classified as boarders
Time frame: During enrollment hospital encounter, up to 300 days
| Milestone | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Started | 30486 |
| Completed | 30486 |
| Not completed | 0 |
Time between admission order placement and ED departure. Only patients admitted to services that routinely take primary care responsibility for boarding patients in the ED will be classified as boarders
| Hours | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Boarding Time | 24.4 ± 20 |
Collected over from enrollment, up to 365 days. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.
| Group | Deaths | Serious | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services | 0/18,526 (0%) | 0/18,526 (0%) | 0/18,526 (0%) |
| Age, Continuous(years) | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Median | 58 (47 to 70) |
| Sex: Female, Male(Participants) | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Female | 9323 |
| Male | 9203 |
| Race/Ethnicity, Customized(Participants) | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Black | 12216 |
| White | 5293 |
| Asian | 239 |
| Other | 778 |
| Region of Enrollment(Participants) | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| United States | 18526 |
| Commercial Payor(Participants) | Patients Hospitalized From the ED to Boarding Services |
|---|---|
| Count of participants | 2682 |
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