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A pilot study examining undesirable events among emergency department–boarded patients awaiting inpatient beds.
Liu SW, Thomas SH, Gordon JA, Hamedani AG, Weissman JS. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;54:381-385.

Adverse events were relatively common among patients boarding in the emergency department due to lack of inpatient beds. A prior study found that communication failures were a contributing factor to errors in this situation.
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