Impact of a Hospitalwide Quality Improvement Initiative on Emergency Department Throughput and Crowding Measures

This pre- and postintervention analysis evaluates the impact of a systemwide, comprehensive, executively supported quality improvement (QI) project on emergency department (ED) throughput measures and crowding in a large nonacademic community hospital. The two primary endpoints used to assess the im...

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Published in:	Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety Vol. 42; no. 12; pp. 533 - 542
Main Authors:	Melton, James D., Blind, Fred, Hall, A. Brad, Leckie, Maureen, Novotny, April
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01-12-2016
Subjects:	Crowding Emergency Service, Hospital - standards Endpoint Determination Florida Health Services Research Hospitals, Community Humans Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data Quality Improvement Time Factors
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