Patient flow in the emergency department: phase III--after disposition decision through departure
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Pennsylvania patient safety advisory
- Author(s):
- Magee, Mary C., author
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority, issuing body. ECRI (Organization), issuing body. Institute for Safe Medication Practices, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, December 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Emergency Medical Services Emergency Service, Hospital Medical Errors -- prevention & control Medical Errors -- statistics & numerical data Patient Transfer Patient Admission Patient Discharge Patient Education as Topic Patient Readmission Transportation of Patients Humans Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In 2013, Pennsylvania hospitals reported 23,749 events to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority in which the emergency department (ED) was selected as the care area. Of these reports, 540 (2.3%) involved patients undergoing care in the time between disposition decision through departure from the ED (i.e., phase III); reported consequences ranged from no-harm events requiring monitoring to events resulting in harm or even death. Several components of this phase have potential safety hazards. Two hundred and thirty-nine events (44.3% of the 540 ED phase III events) involved monitoring the patient until an inpatient bed was available or until the patient was discharged or transferred, and 199 events (36.9%) were gaps in care unrecognized by ED personnel (i.e., identified by another caregiver or department). This article, the third in a series that addresses patient safety related to ED flow, focuses on strategies to improve processes of care and patient safety during ED phase III.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (pages 132-140))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101673941 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101673941