Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
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Improving Patient Flow and Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Guide for Hospitals
Description
This guide, for hospital administrators and emergency department leaders, provides step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.
The information and resources are organized into the following sections:
- The need to address emergency department crowding
- Forming a patient flow team
- Measuring emergency department performance
- Identifying strategies
- Preparing to launch
- Facilitating change and anticipating challenges
- Sharing results
- References
- Guide to online resources successfully used by hospitals to improve patient flow
- Implementation plan template
- Example implementation plan
- Additional readings
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Developer:
Health Research & Educational Trust
Funding Sources:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
History
Release Date: 2011
Original Summary: April 2012
Last Updated: 10/09/13
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