Improving Front-End Flow in an Urban Academic Medical Center Emergency Department: The Emergency Department Discharge Facilitator Team

Length of stay (LOS) is an important determinant of patient satisfaction and overall emergency department (ED) operational efficiency. In an effort to reduce length of stay for low-acuity “treated and released” patients, our department created a discharge facilitator team (DFT) composed of an attend...

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Main Authors: Sharma, Rahul, Mulcare, Mary R., Graetz, Riley, Greenwald, Peter W., Mustalish, Anthony C., Miluszusky, Brian, Flomenbaum, Neal E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer US 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665968/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22875541
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-012-9752-0
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