MP36: Can one emergency physician improve department flow? A proof-of-concept trial of a physician float role
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An attending physician float shift for the improvement of physician productivity in a crowded emergency department.
BACKGROUND Patients backlogged in the emergency department (ED) waiting for an inpatient bed (boarders) continue to require the attention of ED physicians, exacerbating crowding in the ED. To address this problem, we added a "float shift" to our winter schedule solely to care for boarders. We sought to quantify the effect of this float shift, hypothesizing greater physician productivity. METH...
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عنوان ژورنال: CJEM
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1481-8035,1481-8043
DOI: 10.1017/cem.2018.190