Open AccessResident-driven Quality Improvement Pre-post Intervention Targeting Reduction of Emergency Department Decision to Admit Time
Author(s) -
Rahim Kachra,
Alison Walzak,
Stacey A. Hall,
William Connors,
Katherine Eso,
Alejandra Boscan,
Fiona Clement,
Jayne M Holroyd-Leduc
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
canadian journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2369-1778
pISSN - 1911-1606
DOI - 10.22374/cjgim.v11i2.146
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , quality management , intervention (counseling) , emergency medicine , medical emergency , protocol (science) , health care , quality (philosophy) , intensive care medicine , operations management , nursing , alternative medicine , pathology , management system , philosophy , epistemology , economics , economic growth
Long Emergency Department (ED) wait times represent a key point for quality improvement in many healthcare systems. A delayed ED disposition decision may lead to increased length of hospital stay, healthcare cost, and mortality. The objective of this resident-driven quality improvement (QI) intervention was to determine if a standardized resident admission protocol could reduce the ‘decision-to-admit’ (DTA) time of patients being assessed for admission to internal medicine (IM) at 3 tertiary care teaching hospitals.