A Six Hour Stay Is Not An ED Visit- It’s An Obs Admission !
Unless you work in a small hospital with critically low volume and a mostly empty ED, you are combatting crowding. ED crowding is at an all time high and the number of [...]
Patient Flow
Provider In Triage
So you have decided to embark on a provider in triage and you are building your process for the work area. What form will you choose? In this installment of the patient flow [...]
Scribes: Pearls and Pitfalls
Much has been published regarding the use of scribes in the past few years. The position was born out of a need for reducing data entry time by physicians, while [...]
Holding Orders: Pearls and Pitfalls
As many hospitals battle the national physician shortage, emergency physicians are increasingly being asked to write inpatient orders. These are abbreviated orders meant to [...]
ED Patient Segmentation
Many people have written about the segmentation of patient populations in the emergency department, based on acuity. Let’s take a look at it a little more closely [...]
Is It Time For A Physician In Triage?
This is a question many emergency departments struggle with due to the demands of increasing patient volume and increasing wait times. Many departments have successfully [...]
The Silos Of Healthcare
Within the past 10 years, it is very likely that you have come across the “silo” metaphor. It is now commonly used in US healthcare to describe the isolation of a [...]
How to destroy an ED physician’s productivity…
No one sets out to sabotage physician productivity. But there are some common decisions made every day that have a very large, negative impact on that productivity: Software [...]