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