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Active Bed Management by Hospitalists and Emergency Department Throughput

Eric Howell, MD; Edward Bessman, MD; Steven Kravet, MD, MBA; Ken Kolodner, ScD; Robert Marshall, MBA; Scott Wright, MD

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Acknowledgment: The authors thank Ms. Cheri Smith, Ms. Regina Landis, Mr. Angel Sampedro, Dr. Roy Ziegelstein, and all the hospitalists and emergency physicians at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for their involvement in this project.
Financial Support: Dr. Wright is an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Professor of Medicine, and Drs. Kravet and Wright receive support as Miller-Coulson Family Scholars through the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol, statistical code, and data set: Available from Dr. Wright (e-mail, swright@jhmi.edu).
Requests for Single Reprints: Eric Howell, MD, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Collaborative Inpatient Medicine Service, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224; e-mail, ehowell@jhmi.edu.
Current Author Addresses: Drs. Howell, Bessman, Kravet, Kolodner, and Wright and Mr. Marshall: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Collaborative Inpatient Medicine Service, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: E. Bessman, S. Kravet.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: E. Howell, E. Bessman, S. Kravet, K. Kolodner, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
Drafting of the article: E. Howell, E. Bessman, K. Kolodner, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: E. Howell, E. Bessman, S. Kravet, K. Kolodner, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
Final approval of the article: E. Howell, E. Bessman, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
Statistical expertise: E. Howell, K. Kolodner, S. Wright.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: E. Howell, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
Collection and assembly of data: E. Howell, E. Bessman, R. Marshall, S. Wright.
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Acknowledgment: The authors thank Ms. Cheri Smith, Ms. Regina Landis, Mr. Angel Sampedro, Dr. Roy Ziegelstein, and all the hospitalists and emergency physicians at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for their involvement in this project.
Financial Support: Dr. Wright is an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Professor of Medicine, and Drs. Kravet and Wright receive support as Miller-Coulson Family Scholars through the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed.
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol, statistical code, and data set: Available from Dr. Wright (e-mail, swright@jhmi.edu).
Requests for Single Reprints: Eric Howell, MD, Johns Hopkins...
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Howell E, Bessman E, Kravet S, et al. Active Bed Management by Hospitalists and Emergency Department Throughput. Ann Intern Med. 2008;149:804–810. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-149-11-200812020-00006

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2008;149(11):804-810.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-149-11-200812020-00006

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