Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput
eBook - PDF

Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput

Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput

Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

About this book

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 break

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Information

Publisher
Productivity Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138432031
eBook ISBN
9781420084979
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Operations
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction: Description of Current Status of Emergency Departments and Hospitals
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1: Fixing the Front End: : Why Would an Emergency Department Medical Director or Nursing Supervisor Wish to Install Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage?
  6. Chapter 2: Process Mapping and Workflow Diagramming in Health Care
  7. Chapter 3: What is Lean Six Sigma? : An Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma for the Health Care Novice
  8. Chapter 4: Using Lean Six Sigma to Accelerate Emergency Department Results
  9. Chapter 5: Queuing Models for Hospital Emergency Departments
  10. Chapter 6: The Nursing Perspective and Role in Planning a Simulation Modeling Project: : Historical, Experiential, and Future Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking
  11. Chapter 7: The Physiology of Service Capacity
  12. Chapter 8: The Door-to-Doc Toolkit: : Planning Emergency Department Capacity for Delivering Safe Care
  13. Chapter 9: Forecasting the Demand for Emergency Department Services
  14. Chapter 10: Improving Fairness in Nurse Scheduling: : Introducing a New Approach Using Auctions and Integer Programming Optimization
  15. Chapter 11: Establishing Engineered Nurse Staffing Requirements in the Emergency Department
  16. Chapter 12: Patient Safety Organizations: : A New Paradigm in Quality Management and Communication Systems in Health Care
  17. Chapter 13: Alternative Emergency Care Settings
  18. Appendix: Case Study—Surviving and Thriving in Emergency Department Chaos
  19. Index
  20. About the Editors
  21. About the Contributors
  22. Back Cover