Findings from the Fifth Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance Summit
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Data and a shared vocabulary are essential for managing emergency department (ED) operations. This Fifth Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) Summit brought together many of the nation's experts in the field to update key ED operations definitions and to discuss challenges facing the nation's EDs. Summit objectives were (1) to revise existing definitions and establish new measures and metrics for ED operations and (2) to discuss and characterize current issues in emergency care. Fifty-four ED operations, data management, and benchmarking experts participated in the EDBA Summit. Participants discussed several challenges with designated workgroups focusing on behavioral health, capacity and boarding, and financial impacts on emergency care. Each workgroup created consensus recommendations and considered new definitions, measures, metrics, and terminology. The EDBA dictionary was updated and expanded. Specific timestamps and processes were proposed to quantify operational components of emergency care. A complete, precise set of language definitions is needed for organizational leaders to benchmark ED operations. Standardized language definitions allow such benchmarking, which hopefully ultimately improves ED operations and enhances patient care.
Authors: Deb Richey, Gillian Schmitz, Zach Jarou, Anthony Napoli, Randy Pilgrim, Jesse Pines, James Augustine, Michael Gibbons, Nicholas Jouriles, Nicholas Jouriles, Jesse Pines, Theodore Chan, Michael Gerardi, Mark Goldstein, Connie Kerrigan, Sarah Kugler, Brenda Reise-Brennan, Sandy Schneider, David Seaberg, Susan Sedory, Shannon Smith-Bernardin, Alex Wroe, Bruce Janiak, Kathleen Merkley, Anthony Napoli, Danny Cheng, Jody Crane, Mike Hastings, Keith Hemmert, Joan Kolodzik, Kristine Powell, Jim Scheulen, Gillian Schmitz, Michael Uhl, Peter Viccellio, Stephen Wickham, Jim Augustine, Maureen Canellas, Randy Pilgrim, Jeffrey Bettinger, Marianne Gausche-Hill, Doreen Gidal, Angela Mills, Rebecca Parker, Chip Pettigrew, Shari Welch, Jennifer Wiler, Robert Edmonson, John Lyman, Zach Jarou, Christopher Alban, Carrie Baker, Dennis Ferrante, Michelle Flemmings, Pawan Goyal, Azita Hamedani, Anne Jackson, James McClay, Brian Patterson, Bob Risch, Maya Yiadom, Gillian Schmitz, Aisha Terry, Kevin Klauer, Sandra Schneider, Nicholas Jouriles, Nicholas Jouriles
Language: English
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,600
OpenAlex ID: W4410806982