Article: ED/hospitalist plan improves throughput.

ED/hospitalist plan improves throughput

Collaboration also reduces diversions

A new plan for admitting patients from the emergency department (ED) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore jointly developed by an ED physician and a hospitalist, decreased ED throughput for admitted patients 98 minutes (from 458 minutes to 360 minutes) from the same period a year earlier, despite an 8.8% increase in the ED census. The proportion of hours that the ED was on ambulance diversion because of ED crowding decreased 6 percentage points, or 182 fewer hours. The proportion of hours that the ED was on red alert (ambulance diversion due to lack of ICU beds ...

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