Impact of Care Initiation Model on Emergency Department Orders and Operational Metrics: Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency departments (ED) employ many strategies to address crowding and prolonged wait times. They include front-end Care Initiation and clinician-in-triage models that start the diagnostic and therapeutic process while the patient waits for a care space in the ED. The objective of this study was to quantify the impact of a Care Initiation model on resource utilization and operational metrics in the ED.

Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of ED visits at our institution during October 2021. Baseline characteristics were compared with Chi-square and quantile regression. We used t-tests to calculate unadjusted difference in outcome measures, including number of laboratory tests ordered and average time patients spent in the waiting room and the ED trea

SUBMITTER: Lee AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10393454 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature