Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
Triage-based resource allocation and clinical treatment protocol on outcome and length of stay in the emergency department.
The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the triage-based resource allocation and clinical treatment (TRACT) protocol and mortality and length of stay (LOS) in ED. ⋯ The TRACT protocol decreased the ED mortality in ESI 1 group and reduced the ED LOS in ESI levels 2 and 3 groups.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
Emergency department clinical redesign, team-based care and improvements in hospital performance: A time series analysis.
The objective was to evaluate the impact of an ED clinical redesign project that involved team-based care and early senior assessment on hospital performance. ⋯ An ED-focused clinical redesign project was associated with a 17% improvement in NEAT performance with no evidence of an increase in clinical deterioration on inpatient wards and evidence for an improvement in hospital mortality.