Emergency department crowding: Time for interventions and policy evaluations
14 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity
This review summarises the consequences of emergency department crowding and provides a comparison of the scales used to measure emergency...
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10th International Conference for Emergency Nursing
30 January 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED
The 10th International Conference for Emergency Nursing for the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia will be held from 10-13 October...
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Mandatory pain scoring at triage reduces time to analgesia (Australia)
20 January 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 1 more
Examines whether mandatory triage pain scoring and an educational programme reduces the time to initial analgesic treatment in the emergency...
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A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
23 December 2011 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 2 more
Emergency Departments (EDs) face significant challenges in providing efficient, quality, safe, cost-effective care. Lean methodologies are a proposed framework to...
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Characteristics of frequent emergency department presenters to an Australian emergency medicine network (Australia)
17 December 2011 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED
This study describes the characteristics of emergency department (ED) patients defined as frequent presenters (FP) presenting to an Australian emergency...
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Primary care access and its relationship with emergency department utilisation: An observational, cross-sectional, ecological study (UK)
24 January 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Primary Health Care
Investigates whether a relationship exists between the degree of access to GP practices and avoidable emergency department attendances in an...
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Patient satisfaction and outcome using emergency care practitioners in New Zealand
20 January 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement, Knowledge Library and 2 more
A patient satisfaction survey was undertaken in Wellington's Kapiti District to ascertain patients' experience and opinions of New Zealand's first...
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A field test of time-based Emergency Department quality measures (USA)
19 December 2011 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Quality Improvement
Seven time-based emergency department (ED) performance measures implemented in 6 U.S. hospitals during 1 year were assessed for the benefits...
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Best Practice in Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Settings
10 November 2011 by danielle_09 in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 2 more
Facing the current and future challenges for EDs and ICUs This event takes a close look at the highly stressful...
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Documents
- Smokefree interventions in emergency care
- NZMJ paper: Improving acute patient flow and resolving ED overcrowding in NZ hospitals - the major challenges and the promising initiatives
- Shorter Stays in ED - Quarter 1 2011/12 Performance Graphs
- Shorter Stays in ED October 2011 Update
- Towards better access to information about our health (IT Health Board ebooklet)
Tools
- Hospital emergency response checklist (World Health Organization)
- The ABC approach for smoking cessation: Key messages for emergency departments
- Urgent Matters (US)
- Emergency Department Process Improvement Program (Canada)
- Daily Rapid Rounds: Decreasing Length of Stay and Improving Professional Practice
Projects
- Counties Manukau DHB observational study on patients who presented to Middlemore EC
- Auckland DHB's Shorter Stays in ED Performance Summary July 2011
- Examples of full capacity planning - Christchurch Hospital's ED Overload Plan and Auckland City Hospital's Alert Cascade
- Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
- Canterbury DHB's Care Pathways
Literature Abstracts
- Health and independence report
- Risk factors for patient-reported medical errors in eleven countries
- Nelson Marlborough District Health Board: Health Needs Assessment 2011
- Prosthetic hip dislocations: Is relocation in the emergency department by emergency medicine staff better?
- Patient satisfaction and outcome using emergency care practitioners in New Zealand
International Literature
- Effect of working consecutive night shifts on sleep time, prior wakefulness, perceived levels of fatigue and performance on a psychometric test in emergency registrars (Australia)
- Opportunistic childhood vaccinations in emergency—Are we really missing anyone? (Australia)
- Physicians’ ability to predict hospital length of stay for patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency department (United States)
- Emergency department crowding: Time for interventions and policy evaluations
- How does lean work in emergency care? (Sweden)
Discussion
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Towards better access to information about our health (IT Health Board ebooklet)
- Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
- New Zealand Health Survey starts this week
- Targeting emergencies: Shorter stays in emergency departments (Health target publication)