Optimizing emergency department throughput
Subtitle: Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers
By: editors, John M. Shiver and David Eitel.
Contributors: Shiver, John M.; Eitel, David.
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420083774
Subjects: Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Management; Emergency Service, Hospital -- organization & administration; Efficiency, Organizational; Models, Organizational; Quality Assurance, Health Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why would an emergency department medical director wish to install ESI triage? / Dave Eitel and Tom Falvo; title: Process mapping and work flow diagramming in health care / Sueanne McKniff; title: What is lean-six sigma? : an introduction to lean and six sigma for the health care novice / Dave Eitel; title: Using lean-six sigma to accelerate ED results / Chip Caldwell; title: Queuing models for hospital emergency departments / Yasar A. Ozcan; title: The nursing perspective and role in planning a simulation modeling project : historical, experiential, and future applications of complex adaptive systems thinking (with ED case study) / Susan O'Hara; title: The physiology of service capacity / Pierce Story and Dave Eitel; title: The door to Doc toolkit : planning ED capacity for delivering safe care / Twila Burdick ... [et al.]; title: Forecasting the demand for emergency department services / Murray Cote and Elif Akçali; title: Improving fairness in nurse scheduling : introducing a new approach using auctions and integer programming optimization / Melanie DeGrano; title: Establishing engineered nurse staffing requirements in the emergency department / Frank Overfelt; title: Patient safety organizations : a new paradigm in quality management and communication systems for healthcare / Douglas Dotan; title: Alternative emergency care settings / Jim Lifton.