Emergency department overcrowding: Developing emergency department capacity through process improvement

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-150

  Migita, Russell ^a   Del Beccaro, Mark ^a   Cotter, Dawn ^b   Woodward, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Length of stay; Overcrowding; Process assessment; Process improvement; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79959881152     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: 15582310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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