Emergency Department Optimization: Improving Timeliness of Patient Care
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Value in Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1098-3015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2016.03.333