Admission Decisions Made by Emergency Physicians Can Reduce the Emergency Department Length of Stay for Medical Patients

Figure 1

Emergency department length of stay of the patients admitted to the internal medicine department. The preperiod corresponds to January to June 2016, and the postperiod corresponds to January to June 2017. The central line indicates the median, the box represents the IQR, the whiskers extend to 1.5 times the IQR, and the point characters represent the outliers located beyond the whiskers. ED LOS: emergency department length of stay; IQR: interquartile range.