Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2013
Improvement in emergency department length of stay using an early senior medical assessment and streaming model of care: A cohort study.
Australian EDs are required to conform to the National Emergency Access Target (NEAT): patients must be discharged within 4 h of arrival. The aim of the present study was to determine if a model of care called Senior Assessment and Streaming (SAS) would increase the proportion of patients achieving NEAT. ⋯ Through the introduction of SAS, the present study has demonstrated that providing early senior medical assessment can improve an ED's ability to meet NEAT.