Before Leaving Without Being Seen Summary

When a patient steps into the Emergency Department (ED), one expects to receive care as soon as possible due to the fact that the main reason many go to the ED is because it’s a true emergency. Unfortunately, this is not the case and instead a patient ends up waiting long hours. How long is one willing to wait though, one hour? Two hours? Perhaps, three or four hours? The critical question here is that will the patient ultimately leave without being seen (LWBS). If so, what happens to that patient afterwards. In stating that, this paper will summarize the article "How Long Are Patients Willing to Wait in the Emergency Department Before Leaving Without Being Seen" and will explain why this topic is important to me.
Article Summary
In the article, "How Long Are Patients
The different scales being disease process, triage acuity, race, sex, age, insurance status, employed versus unemployed and prior visits to the ED at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virgina. In the hospital, they also performed a patient survey of possible results of waiting times; such as, what percentage of patients would stay, see their primary care providers the next day, end up not seeing anyone for their problem, coming back to the ED the very next day or even go to another ED the same day. About 91% of the 375 people whom participated in the survey responded. There was no relation found in race, sex or insurance status, however, it was recognized that patients older then 25 years of age were willing to stay over 2 hours; that may also be because patients who were over the age of 25 had higher acuities as