Strategies to improve flow in the pediatric emergency department

Kenneth Yen; Marc H. Gorelick

doi:10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181568efe

Strategies to improve flow in the pediatric emergency department

Kenneth Yen, Marc H. Gorelick

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Abstract

As emergency departments (EDs) experience overcrowding, there is ever-growing pressure to improve patient flow. We present a review of strategies to increase efficiency of patient inflow, throughput, and output in the ED, with an emphasis on approaches that are under greater control of the ED itself and therefore more amenable to implementation without major institutional changes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	745-752
Number of pages	8
Journal	Pediatric emergency care
Volume	23
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181568efe
State	Published - Oct 2007

Keywords

Emergency services
Hospital
Length of stay
Organizational efficiency
Process assessment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Emergency Medicine

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