Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput: Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers
Language: English
Published by Productivity Press, 2017
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- Title
- Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput: Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers
- Author
- Shiver, John M., Eitel, David
- Publisher
- Productivity Press
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1138432032
- ISBN 13
- 9781138432031
Across the country ambulances are turned away from emergency departments (EDs) and patients are waiting hours and sometimes days to be admitted to a hospital room. Hospitals are finding it hard to get specialist physicians to come to treat emergency patients. Our EDs demand a new way of thinking. They are not at a tipping point; they are at a breaking point. Under current loads and trends they are going to begin to break and these breakdowns will be painful and ultimately dangerous to society.
Recognizing that the ideal in health care is presently beyond our immediate grasp, this book instead focuses on providing health care leaders with the tools they can employ to optimize the performance of EDs and thereby improve service to patients, employees, and communities.
Written by 20 of the most progressive and successful health care reformers in the country, the approaches described can be utilized to quantify improvements, enhance predictability of workflow, and improve staff scheduling. The data derived using these techniques can serve as powerful evidence in support of change. While a common discussion among ED professionals is the perception that many patients are not really emergency patients and could be treated in another setting at another time, that argument is not germane until we as a nation elect to reform the way we chose to deliver healthcare to the underserviced.
In the meantime this book provides invalauable information to help individual hospitals to retool their ED‘s. It offers new approaches that think outside of the box for all stakeholders. It also provides the statistical evidence that administrators need to make their cases for changes and added resources. It will help you forecast the demand for services and give your center an approach that will allow the ED to become a source of income rather than one that continues to hemorrhage needed limited health care funding.
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