To streamline the admissions process for emergency department patients, Tufts Medical Center is using a clinical communication and collaboration platform to improve teamwork between physicians and the ...

1. Ask every department to participate in promoting efficiency. Patient flow can be disrupted when separate departments and providers do not talk about the hold-ups in each area, Dr. Noonan says. “You ...

A decentralized patient placement process results in numerous problems, including long wait times in the emergency department, patients leaving without being seen, delayed discharge notifications and ...

Management Science Study Key Takeaways: Believe it or not, approximately 1 in 5 patients is placed 'off service,' or in a hospital ward designated for a different specialty of care than what they ...

University of Alabama Medicine, a 1,157-bed academic medical center, manages 50,000 annual admissions and 300 daily emergency department visits. It has 57 operating room suites, with 130 surgeries per ...

Placement of patients in an inpatient hospital setting is associated with lower length of stay and mortality at the expense of higher costs. Objectives: Tertiary referral centers have created ...

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