• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · May 2020

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    Emergency Department Operations II: Patient Flow.

    • Evan Berg, Adam T Weightman, and David A Druga.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, One Boston Medical Center Place, BCD Building, 1st Floor, Room 1004, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Electronic address: evan.berg@bmc.org.
    • Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2020 May 1; 38 (2): 323-337.

    AbstractEmergency departments have always been busy, but persistent annual increases in volume and rates of admission have led to high levels of boarding patients, adding additional risk to the situation. This article reviews specific areas of risk as patients progress through their care in the emergency department and methods by which to mitigate this risk. Beginning with an overview of the current state, commonly used throughput metrics are reviewed before proceeding to a discussion of best practice strategies to decrease risk exposure at input, throughput, and output phases of the patient visit.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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