Special focus: Secrets of improving patient flow
Patient flow is an issue that continues to plague ED managers as patient demand outstrips capacity. However, several creative managers and their staffs have developed successful strategies for improving flow. In this ED Management special issue, you'll hear from many of them:
- an ED manager who has teamed with the hospital patient flow specialist to create effective strategies inside and outside the ED;
- a department that switched to the rapid evaluation unit model and reduced door-to-doc time from four hours to nine minutes;
- an ED leader who already had admirable flow numbers but decided that "good" wasn't good enough;
- a telepsych program that eliminated the need for patients to wait long periods of time — sometimes overnight — to be seen by a psychiatrist.
We hope that enjoy this special package we have put together and that inside these pages you will find innovative strategies that you can put to work in your ED.
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