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Waiting for Triage: Unmeasured Time in Patient Flow

INTRODUCTION: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires reporting of multiple time-sensitive metrics. Most facilities use triage time as the time of arrival. Little is known about how long patients wait prior to triage. As reimbursement to the hospital may be tied to these metric...

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Autores principales: Houston, Christopher, Sanchez, Leon D., Fischer, Christopher, Volz, Kathryn, Wolfe, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671006
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.11.22824