The emergency department serves as the primary driver of admit volume in most hospitals, accounting for more than half of hospital admissions on average. If an ED fails to function efficiently — ...

Patient flow management, adequate staffing levels and cost reductions are issues that hospital emergency departments deal with regularly. Recent studies have shown that emergency department visits are ...

The comprehensiveness of its approach is noteworthy, as are its implications for hospitalists and for other hospitals. "This is about taking non-value-added steps out of the process and getting rid of ...