Hasbro Children’s Hospital’s “Expedite to Excellence” Project Improve Wait Times and Performance Metrics
Hasbro Children’s Hospital (HCH) is a busy pediatric hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and a teaching hospital…
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Hasbro Children’s Hospital’s “Expedite to Excellence” Project Improve Wait Times and Performance Metrics
Hasbro Children’s Hospital (HCH) is a busy pediatric hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and a teaching hospital... -
Virginia Commonwealth University Improves Patient Flow Through “Vision in Action” Model
The emergency department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond is one of the busiest teaching hospital... -
Tips for Managing Heavy Workloads in the Emergency Department
At this very minute in emergency departments across the country, physicians and nurses are working hard, trying...
Virginia Commonwealth University Improves Patient Flow Through “Vision in Action” Model
The emergency department at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond is one of the busiest teaching hospital…
Tips for Managing Heavy Workloads in the Emergency Department
At this very minute in emergency departments across the country, physicians and nurses are working hard, trying…
Carilion Clinic Transfer and Communications Center Helps Improve ED Patient Flow, Outcomes
For the past four years, I have had the honor of serving as the medical director of…
Patient Flow Improvements to Boost Efficiency in Small Emergency Departments
The emergency department at Houlton Regional Hospital (HRH) in Houlton, Maine, wanted to take its operational performance…
Miriam Hospital’s FAST FORWARD>> Program Regains Lost Patient Flow Efficiencies
The Miriam Hospital is a 247-bed community hospital affiliated with the Warren Alpert School Medical School of…
Should Emergency Physicians Abandon Face-Mask Ventilation?
Face-mask ventilation is considered a fundamental procedural skill in emergency medicine. We have historically deployed it when…
Early Hospital Discharge Can Improve Capacity, Patient Flow
Many hospitals in the country operate at capacity, and many patients are boarded in the emergency department….
Intermountain Medical Center in Utah Improves Efficiency, Performance with Vertical Flow Model
Intermountain Medical Center, flagship hospital of the health system by the same name, sits nestled along the…
Rhode Island Hospital ED Boosts Efficiency by Adopting Brown University Patient Flow Model
The Rhode Island Hospital emergency department in Providence was built 10 years ago and is one of…
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With regard to state legislative activity regulating the opioid prescribing practices of emergency physicians, which of the following wouId you support? Check all that apply.
- Restrictions on duration (36%, 229 Votes)
- Restrictions of quantity (34%, 219 Votes)
- Mandatory checking of prescription drug monitoring systems for all opioid prescriptions from the ED (30%, 194 Votes)
Total Voters: 367
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