Tools: ED Treatment Path
Tools: ED Throughput | ED Treatment Path | ED Clinical process | Other ED | Inpatient Flow | Patient Satisfaction | ALL
Tool / Best Practice (Alphabetical order)
Contributing Hospital / Description
30 Minute
ER Promise (Categories: ED
Throughput, ED Treatment Path, Patient Satisfaction)
Atlantic General Hospital - Staff wanted to improve the time it took
for a patient to begin treatment to 30 minutes and created the '30 Minute ER
Promise.' It guarantees that a patient will be placed in an exam room or begin
to receive treatment, such as pain medication, x-ray, or lab tests, within
30 minutes of arrival at the hospital. (supporting
document (PDF))
Care Management
Unit (Categories: ED
Throughput, ED Treatment Path, Patient Satisfaction)
Grady Health System - A Care Management Unit at Grady Health System
treats patients with specific common diagnoses in the ED.
ED
Satellite Laboratory Kiosk (Categories: ED
Treatment Path)
Massachusetts General Hospital - A dedicated satellite lab within
the ED has helped Massachusetts General Hospital decrease patient length
of stay in the ED by reducing unnecessary waiting for lab results.
Enhanced
Triage Area (Categories: ED
Throughput, ED Treatment Path, Patient Satisfaction)
Northwest Community Hospital - Northwest Community Hospital put in
place an Advanced Triage Care Area, in which lower-acuity patients would be
assessed, treated, and discharged having to wait for an ED bed.
Frontline Physician (Categories: ED
Treatment Path)
Methodist Willowbrook Hospital - Looking for a new strategy to help
improve patient throughput, ED management at Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
decided to redesign the triage process. (supporting
document (PDF))
Point-of-Care
Testing (Categories: ED
Treatment Path)
Mercy Medical Center - Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio
implemented point-of-care testing to simplify the lab testing process
because the tests can be performed in the ED.
Rapid
Medical Examination (Categories: ED
Treatment Path)
California Emergency Physicians - Under a RME system, patients are
identified who are likely to be discharged quickly. These patients are sent
to a separate room for an examination and minor testing, rather than waiting
in the waiting room. Once testing is complete, patients are either discharged
or returned to the waiting room.
Standard
Care Protocols (Categories: ED
Treatment Path)
San Antonio Community Hospital - San Antonio Community Hospital
wanted to establish standard protocols to begin treatment for specific conditions
during long waits in the ED.
Triage
Treat and Release (Categories: ED
Throughput, ED Treatment Path)
Lutheran Medical Center - Lutheran Medical Center created a Triage
Treat and Release unit to care for lower-acuity patients with 25 protocol
diagnoses in a designated area. This helped decrease congestion in the main
ED area.
