… the wait time and service time for various emergency department (ED) patient care processes
… It calculated wait times and services associated with important care processes and then …

… are introducing emergency department length of stay (EDLOS) time targets similar to the UK
… on health-care outcomes. We sought to determine what effects the four hour time target for …

… strategy for reducing ED crowding may be to redirect patients to appropriate services. The
… a strategy aimed at reducing intake into the emergency department by streaming patients …

… By applying Lean techniques to the population of dischargeable patients, we hypothesized
we would improve ED efficiency and productivity, and ultimately reduce ED wait times and …

… We obtained routine data on emergency department waiting time performance from the
Department of Health for three distinct weeks before, during, and after monitoring week (weeks …

… reducing boarding times for patients held in the ED awaiting transfer to inpatient units. Our
ED implemented a leadership-based admit wait time reduction … wait times, boarding times, …

… exactly doubles the cost of care23 and that the marginal increase in wait time from Level 1 to
… Given these parameters, if 35% of patients had their wait time reduced by 1 hour by moving …

… the same time, however, the number of hospital Emergency … waiting and turnaround times
have been shown to decrease … Among US Emergency Departments in 2010, only 31% …

… Prolonged emergency department (ED) wait time and length of visit reduce quality of care
and … Previous studies have not examined hospital-level performance on ED wait time and visit …

… In summary, we report the results of a major effort to decrease waiting time intervals and …
emergency medicine faculty into the process, major improvements were noted in patient waiting …