According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

September 16th, 2016
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In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

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Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

September 16th, 2016
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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

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Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

September 16th, 2016
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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

September 16th, 2016
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Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

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Sepsis is a medical condition with high rates of morbidity, mortality and cost and it is the most...

September 16th, 2016
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At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

February 29th, 2016
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North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

February 29th, 2016
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Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

June 16th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

May 28th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

July 11th, 2014
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The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

March 26th, 2013
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Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

March 25th, 2013
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The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

March 1st, 2013
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