John M. Shiver, David Eitel

Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput (eBook, ePUB)

Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relationships of individual stakeholders and illustrates how information technology can play an important role in improving the performance of the ED. This work also demonstrates how to improve financial performance, specialty services, and billing and collections functions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040180051
• Artikelnr.: 72283094

Autorenporträt

David Eitel, John M. Shiver

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Description of Current Status of Emergency Departments and
Hospitals. Fixing the Front End: Why Would an Emergency Department Medical
Director or Nursing Supervisor Wish to Install Emergency Severity Index
(ESI) Triage? Process Mapping and Workflow Diagramming in Health Care. What
is Lean Six Sigma? An Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma for the Health
Care Novice. Using Lean-Six Sigma to Accelerate Emergency Department
Results. Queuing Models for Hospital Emergency Departments. The Nursing
Perspective and Role in Planning a Simulation Modeling Project: Historical,
Experiential, and Future Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking;
with an Emergency Department Case Study. The Physiology of Service
Capacity. The Door-to-Doc Toolkit: Planning Emergency Department Capacity
for Delivering Safe Care. Forecasting the Demand for Emergency Department
Services. Improving Fairness in Nurse Scheduling: Introducing a New
Approach Using Auctions and Integer Programming Optimization. Establishing
Engineered Nurse Staffing Requirements in the Emergency Department. Patient
Safety Organizations: A New Paradigm in Quality Management and
Communication Systems in Health Care. Alternative Emergency Care Settings.
Appendix A : Case Study-Surviving and Thriving in Emergency Department
Chaos. Appendix B. About the Editors. About the Contributors.