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

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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Bibliographic Details
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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