Emergency department front-end split-flow experience: ‘physician in intake’
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Optimizing emergency department front-end operations.
As administrators evaluate potential approaches to improve cost, quality, and throughput efficiencies in the emergency department (ED), "front-end" operations become an important area of focus. Interventions such as immediate bedding, bedside registration, advanced triage (triage-based care) protocols, physician/practitioner at triage, dedicated "fast track" service line, tracking systems and w...
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INTRODUCTION The objective of this report is to determine physician assistant (PA) productivity in an academic emergency department (ED) and to determine whether shift length or department census impact productivity. METHODS A retrospective chart review was conducted at a tertiary ED during June and July of 2007. Productivity was calculated as the mean number of patients seen each hour. Analy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open Quality
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2399-6641
DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000817