{"pk":13304,"title":"Ridesharing as an Alternative to Ambulance Transport for Voluntary Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n Emergency department (ED) crowding is a growing problem. Psychiatric patients have long ED lengths of stay awaiting placement and transportation to a psychiatric facility after disposition.\nMethods:\n Retrospective analysis of length of ED stay after disposition for voluntary psychiatric patients before and after the use of Lyft ridesharing services for inter-facility transport.\nResults:\n Using Lyft transport to an outside crisis center shortens time to discharge both statistically and clinically from 113 minutes to 91 minutes (p = 0.028) for voluntary psychiatric patients. Discharge time also decreased for involuntary patients from 146 minutes to 127 minutes (p = 0.0053).\nConclusion:\n Ridesharing services may be a useful alternative to medical transportation for voluntary psychiatric patients.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"operations"},{"word":"Efficiency"},{"word":"emergency department"}],"section":"Behavioral Health","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26q198rn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blome","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rosenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Nicole","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lucas","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Kraftin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schreyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-10-11T16:41:40Z","date_accepted":"2019-10-11T16:41:40Z","date_published":"2020-04-21T18:41:08Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/13304/galley/6999/download/"}]}