Optimizing emergency department throughput
Subtitle: operations management solutions for health care decision makers
By: [edited by] John M. Shiver, David Eitel
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781420083774
Notes: "A Productivity Press book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fixing the front end : why would an emergency department medical director or nursing supervisor wish to install Emergency Severity Index (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 emergency department results / Greg Butler, Chip Caldwell, and Shannon Elswick; 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 / Susan O'Hara; title: The physiology of service capacity / Pierce Story and Dave Eitel; title: The door-to-doc toolkit : planning emergency department capacity for delivering safe care / Twila L. Burdick ... [et al.]; title: Forecasting the demand for emergency department services / Murray J. Côte ... [et al.]; title: Improving fairness in nurse scheduling : introducing a new approach using auctions and integer programming optimization / Melanie L. 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 B. Dotan; title: Alternative emergency care settings / James Lifton.