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Kaizen: Improving Patient flow
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2017 Background: Since Cobb and Douglas Public Health (CDPH) achieved accreditation in May 2015, efforts to mature a culture of quality have been emphasized. In addition, the Adult Health Clinic moved to a new facility in Spring 2016.
Gurleen Roberts +4 more
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Improving emergency department patient flow [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2016 Emergency departments (ED) face significant challenges in delivering high quality and timely patient care on an ever-present background of increasing patient numbers and limited hospital resources.
Paul Richard Edwin Jarvis
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Fractional Flow Reserve-Based Patient Risk Classification
Diagnostics, 2023 Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of death. If not treated in a timely manner, cardiovascular diseases can cause a plethora of major life complications that can include disability and a loss of the ability to work.
Marijana Stanojević Pirković +6 more
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Abnormal Myocardial Blood Flow Reserve Observed in Cardiac Amyloidosis [PDF]
, 2016 We performed real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography on a patient with cardiac amyloidosis and previous normal coronary angiography presenting with atypical chest pain to assess myocardial blood flow reserve (MBFR).
Greaves, K, Nam, MC, Nel, K, Senior, R
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IEEE Access, 2021 Healthcare sectors face multiple threats, and the hospital emergency department (ED) is one of the most crucial hospital areas. ED plays a key role in promoting hospitals’ goals of enhancing service efficiency.
Nidal Hamza +2 more
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Inhalation characteristics of asthma patients, COPD patients and healthy volunteers with the Spiromax® and Turbuhaler® devices: a randomised, cross-over study. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Spiromax® is a novel dry-powder inhaler containing formulations of budesonide plus formoterol (BF). The device is intended to provide dose equivalence with enhanced user-friendliness compared to BF Turbuhaler® in asthma and chronic ...
A Hardwell +30 more
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011 Introduction: Bed-blocking problems in hospitals reflect how difficult and complex it is to move patients smoothly through the chain of care. In the Netherlands, during the first decade of the 21st century, some hospitals attempted to tackle this problem
Ingrid Mur, Mark Govers
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On patient flow in hospitals: A data-based queueing-science perspective
Stochastic Systems, 2015 Hospitals are complex systems with essential societal benefits and huge mounting costs. These costs are exacerbated by inefficiencies in hospital processes, which are often manifested by congestion and long delays in patient care.
Mor Armony +5 more
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Using computer simulation in operating room management: impacts of information quality on process performance [PDF]
, 2010 High quality information has a significant impact on improving operation performance and patient satisfaction, as well as resolving patient disputes. Based on the analysis of the perioperative process, information quality is considered as an important ...
Al-Hakim, Latif, Su, Ying
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Journal of Public Health Research, 2021 Accurate staff scheduling is crucial in overcoming the problem of mismatch between staffing ratios and demand for health services which can impede smooth patient flow.
Kambombo Mtonga +4 more
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