| Emergency Department Operations Dictionary: Results of the Second Performance Measures and Benchmarking Summit. | |
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PMID: 21545672 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The public, payers, hospitals, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are demanding that emergency departments (EDs) measure and improve performance, but this cannot be done unless we define the terms used in ED operations. On February 24, 2010, 32 stakeholders from 13 professional organizations met in Salt Lake City, Utah, to standardize ED operations metrics and definitions, which are presented in this consensus paper. Emergency medicine (EM) experts attending the Second Performance Measures and Benchmarking Summit reviewed, expanded, and updated key definitions for ED operations. Prior to the meeting, participants were provided with the definitions created at the first summit in 2006 and relevant documents from other organizations and asked to identify gaps and limitations in the original work. Those responses were used to devise a plan to revise and update the definitions. At the summit, attendees discussed and debated key terminology, and workgroups were created to draft a more comprehensive document. These results have been crafted into two reference documents, one for metrics and the operations dictionary presented here. The ED Operations Dictionary defines ED spaces, processes, patient populations, and new ED roles. Common definitions of key terms will improve the ability to compare ED operations research and practice and provide a common language for frontline practitioners, managers, and researchers. ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:1-6 © 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. |
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Shari J Welch; Suzanne Stone-Griffith; Brent Asplin; Steven J Davidson; James Augustine; Jeremiah D Schuur; |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-5-5 |
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Title: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Volume: - ISSN: 1553-2712 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-5-6 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9418450 Medline TA: Acad Emerg Med Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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© 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. |
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From Intermountain Healthcare-Institute for Health Care Delivery Research (SJW), Salt Lake City, UT; the Hospital Corporation of America (SS), Nashville, TN; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic (BA), Rochester, MN; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center (SD), Brooklyn, NY; the Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (JA), Centerville, OH; and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (JDS), Boston, MA. |
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