The Impact of Psychiatric Patient Boarding in Emergency Departments

Table 1

Demographic and length of stay data of the patient cohorts.

	Psychiatric	Nonpsychiatric	Significance (𝑃)
Total admissions	505 (2.6%)	18768 (97.4%)
Age in years, median	43	52	𝑃<0.05
Sex (%)
Male	37	43	𝑃<0.05
Female	63	57
Racial categories (%)
White	50	54
African-American	42	39	^**NS
Hispanic	6	5
Asian	0.3	0.4
Uninsured (%)	32	24	𝑃<0.05
Total length of stay (min)	1089	340	𝑃<0.001
Duration from Consultation to Admission (min)	1017	178	𝑃<0.001

Key: ^**NS: not statistically significant, min: minute.