When patients visit emergency rooms or outpatient clinics in need of medical attention, effective patient flow facilitates the timely care of patients and avoids a bottleneck that can disrupt more than one department of the hospital. Patient flow encompasses the systematic process of attending to patients, from the time they walk into a medical facility… Read more »
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Improving ER Patient Flow
Patients aren’t the only ones who worry that their hospital’s emergency room (ER) is too busy to deliver reliable, prompt care. A majority of hospital leaders worry about the same thing. In a recent survey conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians, most administrators named overcrowding in the ER as one of their top… Read more »