SurgeCon: Priming a Community Emergency Department for Patient Flow Management

Introduction: Canadian emergency departments (ED) are struggling to provide timely emergency care. Very few studies have assessed attempts to improve ED patient flow in the rural context. We assessed the impact of SurgeCon, an ED patient-management protocol, on total patient visits, patients who lef...

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Main Authors: Christopher Patey, Paul Norman, Mehdee Araee, Shabnam Asghari, Thomas Heeley, Sarah Boyd, Oliver Hurley, Kris Aubrey-Bassler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2019-07-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85z9x3rb