A Novel Approach to Care Redesign Collaboration Between Emergency and Specialty Departments: Qualitative Experience Report.

ABSTRACT: Given the rising demand for emergency department (ED) services and coupled with the scarcity of specialty care availability, there is an urgency to design a system for appropriate, effective, and timely ED-to-specialty ambulatory referrals. Efficient care transitions are important to patient outcomes and experience and require cross-specialty cooperation, as care transitions affect practices and resources of individuals, departments, and institutions. Here, our objective was to (1) describe a collaboration between Stanford's Emergency Medicine and Neurology and Neurological Sciences departments aimed at designing and implementing an optimized discharge process and transition of care from ED to ambulatory neurology for follow-up care and (2) the resulting intervention from the collaboration

SUBMITTER: Harris SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12380400 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature