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 proposed costly and risky options to address this issue. This study aimed to develop an individualized plan for an emergency department to reduce their ambulance patient offloading times without additional staff or physical space.

Acquisition Type

Proxy-submission

Review Type

Abstract Review Only: Reviewed by Event Host

Repository Posting Date

2020-12-01T21:45:00Z

Notes

Items submitted to a conference/event were evaluated/peer-reviewed at the time of abstract submission to the event. No other peer-review was provided prior to submission to the Sigma Repository, unless otherwise noted.

Type

Poster

Format

Text-based Document

Level of Evidence

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords

Emergency Department;
Ambulance Offloading;
Offloading Delay;
Educational Intervention;
Throughput

Conference Name

EN20X – A Virtual Xperience

Conference Host

Emergency Nurses Association

Conference Location

Virtual Event

Conference Year

2020

Rights Holder

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.