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Time matters! Improve satisfaction, decrease LWBS, and enhance throughput
Purpose: Improving patient satisfaction, decreasing left without being seen rates, and improving ED throughput were the objectives for embarking on this journey to streamline treatment of ESI 4 and 5 patients.
Design: ...
Reducing low acuity length of stay a care paradigm transition
(2017-12-05)
Poster presentation, Session E presented Friday, September 15, 2017
Purpose: Emergency Department overcrowding is an epidemic in the United States. Use of services is often utilized by patients that do not require the ...
Ambulance offload delay: A process map to improvement
Ambulance patient offload delays in the emergency department have been determined to be harmful to patients, costly to the emergency medical service companies, and stressful for the ED staff. To date, research has only ...
Implementation of a vertical care area and enhancement of the triage process for patient throughput in a freestanding emergency department
(2017-12-05)
Session G presented Saturday, September 16, 2017
Purpose: The objective of this performance improvement project was to improve the overall triage process and create a vertical care treatment area in the freestanding ...
Emergency department throughput: Immediate bedding to reduce throughput times
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to decrease front-end throughput times at Houston Methodist St. John Emergency Department (ED) by direct bedding patients until all beds are full.
Design: This was a quality ...
Improving the emergency department handoff to facilitate inpatient throughput
(2017-12-04)
Poster presentation Session F presented Friday, September 15, 2017
Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) throughput has been identified as a major factor that can impact care and quality throughout the hospital (Handel et ...