Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value

Many emergency departments (EDs) compare themselves to national productivity benchmarks, such as the average patients/hour or relative value units (RVUs)/hour. Making these comparisons does not provide a tool to determine which processes need improvement, most urgently, within the ED to improve effi...

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Main Author:	Bert A Silich
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2013-09-01
Series:	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Subjects:	los length patient care emergency medicine
Online Access:	http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zw7w7j8

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spelling	doaj-262c0abaf9834df98dc0a1b4bf4349a32020-11-24T22:20:22ZengeScholarship Publishing, University of CaliforniaWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine1936-900X1936-90182013-09-0114555155410.5811/westjem.2013.5.16258Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum ValueBert A SilichMany emergency departments (EDs) compare themselves to national productivity benchmarks, such as the average patients/hour or relative value units (RVUs)/hour. Making these comparisons does not provide a tool to determine which processes need improvement, most urgently, within the ED to improve efficiency. Furthermore, there has been no clear means to determine how to set reasonable goals based on the capabilities of the particular ED under study. Determining the power of a process is a tool that can provide the ED with these missing pieces of information. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(5):551–554.]http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zw7w7j8loslengthpatientcareemergencymedicine
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title	Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value
title_short	Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value
title_full	Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value
title_fullStr	Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value
title_full_unstemmed	Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value
title_sort	measuring power in an emergency department to improve processes and decrease the length of stay hours to their optimum value
publisher	eScholarship Publishing, University of California
series	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
issn	1936-900X 1936-9018
publishDate	2013-09-01
description	Many emergency departments (EDs) compare themselves to national productivity benchmarks, such as the average patients/hour or relative value units (RVUs)/hour. Making these comparisons does not provide a tool to determine which processes need improvement, most urgently, within the ED to improve efficiency. Furthermore, there has been no clear means to determine how to set reasonable goals based on the capabilities of the particular ED under study. Determining the power of a process is a tool that can provide the ED with these missing pieces of information. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(5):551–554.]
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Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay Hours to their Optimum Value

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