Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety / Joint Commission Resources
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Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf · Dec 2016
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. ⋯ This study suggests that a comprehensive systemwide and executively supported QI project can make sustained multiyear improvements in ED throughput and LWBS. Further research is needed to determine if this standardized set of changes can be generalized to other hospital systems.