Emergency department throughput: Strategies for success

Journal of Nursing Administration

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 375-377

  Scrofine, Sharon ^a   Fitzsimons, Virginia ^b  

^a MeridianHealth Systems   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEW JERSEY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CENTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CROWDING; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; NEW JERSEY;

EID: 84907205136     PISSN: 00020443     EISSN: 15390721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000085     Document Type: Article

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