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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2013-09-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zw7w7j8 |