Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay 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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Autor principal: Silich, Bert A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2013
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Emergency Department Operations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24106557
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.5.16258
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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.
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spelling pubmed-37899232013-10-08 Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay to their Optimum Value Silich, Bert A. West J Emerg Med Emergency Department Operations 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. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2013-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3789923/ /pubmed/24106557 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.5.16258 Text en Copyright © 2013 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_full Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay to their Optimum Value
title_fullStr Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay to their Optimum Value
title_full_unstemmed Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay to their Optimum Value
title_short Measuring Power in an Emergency Department to Improve Processes and Decrease the Length of Stay to their Optimum Value
title_sort measuring power in an emergency department to improve processes and decrease the length of stay to their optimum value
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3789923/
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