Report identifies success factors for improving ED patient flow

CAL/AAEM News Service calaaem_news at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 23 22:11:33 PDT 2004


Report identifies success factors for improving ED patient flow
       
September 14, 2004


A new report identifies best practices from 10 hospitals selected as
participants in the Urgent Matters Learning Network, a national initiative of
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help hospitals eliminate emergency
department crowding and communities understand the challenges facing the health
care safety net. Each participating hospital developed and implemented a
variety of strategies designed to improve patient flow through different parts
of the ED and reduce ED overcrowding overall.  Eight common factors were
identified as critical for success, such as securing leadership buy-in and
commitment from the hospital to make these improvements, having the right
multidisciplinary teams in place, and identifying the right performance
measures. The report, “Bursting at the Seams: Improving Patient Flow to Help
America’s Emergency Departments” can be found at www.urgentmatters.org


Source: AHA News Now (www.ahanews.com)


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Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service 
UC-Irvine



		
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