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.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
Visitors with a specific interest in hospital productivity are recommended to visit the Emergency Departments section of the Ministry site.
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.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
Visitors with a specific interest in hospital productivity are recommended to visit the Emergency Departments section of the Ministry site.
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Hutt Valley, Capital & Coast and the Wairarapa DHBs
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the Midland region
- The determinants of health for children and young people in the northern district health boards
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International Literature
- Emergency department clinical redesign, team-based care and improvements in hospital performance (Australia)
- Crowding measures associated with the quality of emergency department care: A systematic review
- Systematic review of telemedicine applications in emergency rooms
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- Cost and outcomes of assessing patients with chest pain in an Australian emergency department
Documents
- Presentations from a forum on the implementation of ‘A Quality Framework and Suite of Quality Measures for the Emergency Department Phase of Acute Patient Care in New Zealand’
- Emergency Department Non Cardiac Chest Pain patient discharge information sheet
- Chest Pain Pathways in use around New Zealand
- Christchurch hospital flowchart for managing chest pain presentations to the ED - latest version Oct 2015
- NICE releases guidelines in England - Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings
Case Studies
- Who gets admitted to the Chest Pain Unit (CPU) and how do we manage them? Improving the use of the CPU in Waikato DHB, New Zealand
- Creating and sustaining value: Building a culture of continuous improvement (Toronto East General Hospital, Canada)
- Medical Management Program in the ED (Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Florida)
- ‘Discharge to assess’ at Sheffield Frailty Unit (UK)
- Removing a roadblock to ED patient flow - improving access to telemetry monitoring (Waitemata DHB Health Excellence Awards 2012 poster award winner)
Events
- Trauma 2015 - New Zealand Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting (Wellington)
- 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (Brisbane)
- 24th Annual Conference of the College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand (Wellington)
- International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare: Asia (Hong Kong)
- 13th International Conference for Emergency Nursing (Brisbane)
