1334 Improving Patient Flow Through the Hand Trauma Pathway

Improving patient flow through an eye clinic

the flow of patients through our eye programme is about making their journey easier while making the best use of our own time and resources in the eye clinic. It involves elminating unnecessary steps and processes, giving us more time to focus on our patients and on providing a good – and friendly – service. Eye care administrators and managers benefit too: better patient flow reduces waste and...

Improving Emergency Department Patient Flow Through Near Real-Time Analytics

IMPROVING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT FLOW THROUGH NEARREAL-TIME ANALYTICSbySHANSHAN QIUAugust 2014 Advisor: Dr. Ratna Babu ChinnamCo-Advisor: Dr. Alper MuratMajor: Industrial EngineeringDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation research investigates opportunities for developing effective decisionsupport models that exploit near real-time (NRT) information ...

Regional anesthesia for the trauma patient: improving patient outcomes

Trauma is a significant health problem and a leading cause of death in all age groups. Pain related to trauma is frequently severe, but is often undertreated in the trauma population. Opioids are widely used to treat pain in injured patients but have a broad range of undesirable effects in a multitrauma patient such as neurologic and respiratory impairment and delirium. In contrast, regional an...

Improving patient flow

Improving emergency department patient flow

Emergency departments (ED) face significant challenges in delivering high quality and timely patient care on an ever-present background of increasing patient numbers and limited hospital resources. A mismatch between patient demand and the ED's capacity to deliver care often leads to poor patient flow and departmental crowding. These are associated with reduction in the quality of the care deli...