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ArticleJAMA network open2024

Boarding Duration in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Delirium and Severe Agitation.

Joshua W Joseph, Noémie Elhadad, Melissa L P Mattison, Lauren M Nentwich, Sharon A Levine, Edward R Marcantonio, Maura Kennedy

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Article in JAMA network open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Emergency Department Boarding as a Potential Amplifier of Agitation in Delirium Superimposed on Dementia.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2026
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  8. Severe hypotension following sublingual dexmedetomidine administration in an elderly patient.American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · 2026
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  13. Frailty Alerts Reduce Waiting Time and Length of Stay in the Emergency Department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026
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  19. Detection of emergency department patients at risk of dementia through artificial intelligence.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Joshua W JosephDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Noémie ElhadadDepartment of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Melissa L P MattisonDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Lauren M NentwichDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sharon A LevineDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Edward R MarcantonioDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Maura KennedyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

DeliriumEmergency Service, HospitalPsychomotor AgitationAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHospitalizationHumansInpatientsLength of StayMaleMiddle AgedTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID38861262
PMCPMC11167494

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