Hospitalist-led medicine emergency department team: Associations with throughput, timeliness of patient care, and satisfaction

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 562-566

  Chadaga, Smitha R ^a,b   Shockley, Lee ^a,b   Keniston, Angela ^a   Klock, Nancy E ^a   Van Dyke, Susan ^a   Davis, Quin ^a   Chu, Eugene S ^a,c  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Boulder Community Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; TEAMWORK;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866003658     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.1957     Document Type: Article

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