Shorter Stays in ED
The health target, Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments is defined as ‘95 percent of patients will be admitted, discharged or transferred from an emergency department within six hours’.
Within this topic area, you will find information on the target, details on the Shorter Stays in ED Work Programme and a number of tools and resources to help the sector improve emergency department outcomes.
The health target, Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments is defined as ‘95 percent of patients will be admitted, discharged or transferred from an emergency department within six hours’.
Within this topic area, you will find information on the target, details on the Shorter Stays in ED Work Programme and a number of tools and resources to help the sector improve emergency department outcomes.
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Effect of an electronic medical record information system on emergency department performance (Australia)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 6 Mar 2013
This retrospective observational study investigated whether implementation of the Cerner FirstNet electronic medical record system in a New South Wales…
Removing a roadblock to ED patient flow - improving access to telemetry monitoring (Waitemata DHB Health Excellence Awards 2012 poster award winner)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 27 Feb 2013
In this poster, the authors describe how one reason for delays in moving patients from the emergency department into wards…
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Event
4th Australian Emergency Nurse Practitioner Conference (Melbourne)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 25 Feb 2013
Nurse Prac ED provides a national forum where Emergency Nurse Practitioners and clinicians are able to share information and industry…
Event
22nd Annual Conference of the College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand
posted by HIIRC Admin on 11 Jan 2013
The 22nd Annual Conference of the College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand will be held in Nelson on October 18th…
International Literature
A novel approach to improving emergency department consultant response times (Canada)
posted by HIIRC Admin on 5 Apr 2013
Using a time-series design, the authors evaluated an intervention that aimed to improve time to admission for patients referred to…
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- The role of the emergency department in the acute management of chronic or recurrent pain
- The San Francisco Syncope Rule performs well in a regional rural emergency department in New Zealand
- Examining renal impairment as a risk factor for acute coronary syndrome: A prospective observational study
- Palliative care patients’ use of emergency departments
- A moment in time: Emergency nurses and the Canterbury earthquakes
International Literature
- In situ simulation: Detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department (U.S.A.)
- Reducing errors in emergency surgery (Australia)
- Digital images taken with a mobile phone can assist in the triage of neurosurgical patients to a level 1 trauma centre (U.S.)
- Patients' experience and satisfaction with GP led walk-in centres in the UK
- Utilizing experience-based co-design to improve the experience of patients accessing emergency departments in New South Wales public hospitals
Case Studies
- Removing a roadblock to ED patient flow - improving access to telemetry monitoring (Waitemata DHB Health Excellence Awards 2012 poster award winner)
- Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)
- National research project will provide valuable insights into impact of ED target
- Valuing patients’ time initiatives improve ED to ward flow
- ED target met, but improvements continue at Nelson Marlborough
Projects
- ‘Shared care’ health records now on-line in ED - Wairarapa DHB
- 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)
Events
- 15th International Conference on Emergency Medicine (Hong Kong)
- 4th Australian Emergency Nurse Practitioner Conference (Melbourne)
- Rapid Response Systems and Medical Emergency Teams 8th International Conference (London)
- 22nd Annual Conference of the College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand
- Kids Trauma Conference (Auckland)
Discussion
- IT Health Board: Exciting times for emergency departments as electronic solution emerges
- 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