Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38993439›Full record

ArticleCureus2024

Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Department Length of Stay in a Military Training Hospital Following the Implementation of a Standardized Paging System.

Steven Siemieniak, Skylar Dehaan, Aaron Matlock

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Steven SiemieniakEmergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, USA.
Skylar DehaanEmergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, USA.
Aaron MatlockEmergency Medicine, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency department (ED) lengths of stay (LOS) may be unnecessarily extended by inefficient consulting processes. Delays in initiating consultations, returning calls, consultant evaluation of patients, and communication of recommendations can contribute to potentially avoidable increases in LOS. Prolonged ED LOS has been shown to increase patient morbidity and mortality and to decrease patient satisfaction. We created a standardized procedure for ED-initiated consultations, with the goal of reducing the time to initial consultant callback, time to admission, and total ED LOS. Following our intervention, time to consultant callback was decreased; however, there was no reduction in total ED LOS for admitted patients.

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computer-based consultationconsultconsultation timeed length of staytime of admission

Identifiers

PMID38993439
PMCPMC11238153

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