Patient Flow Analysis in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practical Tutorial and Case Study

Patient flow analysis (PFA), a simple quality improvement tool to identify patient flow patterns, can be used in resource-limited settings to inform service delivery improvements. A PFA at a Ghanaian hospital found that personnel constraints and a mismatch between staffing and patient arrival surges...

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Autores principales: Dixon, Cinnamon A, Punguyire, Damien, Mahabee-Gittens, Melinda, Ho, Mona, Lindsell, Christopher J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745126
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00121
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description Patient flow analysis (PFA), a simple quality improvement tool to identify patient flow patterns, can be used in resource-limited settings to inform service delivery improvements. A PFA at a Ghanaian hospital found that personnel constraints and a mismatch between staffing and patient arrival surges led to long wait and total attendance times. The median time from arrival to first-provider contact was 4.6 hours.
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spelling pubmed-43562812015-03-13 Patient Flow Analysis in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practical Tutorial and Case Study Dixon, Cinnamon A Punguyire, Damien Mahabee-Gittens, Melinda Ho, Mona Lindsell, Christopher J Glob Health Sci Pract Tutorial Patient flow analysis (PFA), a simple quality improvement tool to identify patient flow patterns, can be used in resource-limited settings to inform service delivery improvements. A PFA at a Ghanaian hospital found that personnel constraints and a mismatch between staffing and patient arrival surges led to long wait and total attendance times. The median time from arrival to first-provider contact was 4.6 hours. Global Health: Science and Practice 2015-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4356281/ /pubmed/25745126 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00121 Text en © Dixon et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00121.
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