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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
Sepsis is a medical condition with high rates of morbidity, mortality and cost and it is the most...
At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...
North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...