The effect of a separate stream for minor injuries on accident and emergency department waiting times

Introduction: Various measures are recommended, including the use of individual care procedures for slight injuries ("high-speed lane") to reduce accident and emergency (A & E) department latency. This study was designed to evaluate whether an individualized minor injury treatment process in the UK A & E department shortens latency without delaying treatment of more serious injuries.

Intervention: Doctors believe that injured patients do not need to confirm sofas or emergency interventions. Patients requiring further treatment return to the secondary waiting room until the nurse can see them in a separate compartment

Method Retrospectively searched data from daily hospital information systems so that all patients entering the A & E department are within 5 weeks and within 5 weeks of establishment of individual flow systems.

RESULTS: A total of 13,918 new patients were observed during the 10 week study period, 7117 (51.1%) in the first 5 weeks and 6801 (49.9%) in the next 5 weeks were separate Floran . The time spent recording physician's time range is 0 to 850 minutes. Comparison of the two 5-week periods showed an improvement in the percentage of patients waiting for less than 30 minutes and less than 60 minutes (p <0.0001). Relative risk of waiting for over 1 hour has decreased by 32%. Improving latency does not sacrifice more urgently needed patients

CONCLUSION: Separate small lesions can improve the number of trauma patients waiting for more than an hour by about 30%. If this is related to an increase in the presence of consultants at the manufacturing site, it is possible to achieve a 50% improvement. To reduce the number of patients waiting for long-term emergency departments, we recommend that you make small injuries in each department.

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Introduction: Various measures are recommended, including the use of individual care procedures for slight injuries ("high-speed lane") to reduce accident and emergency (A & E) department latency. This study was designed to assess whether a single minor injury treatment procedure in the UK emergency department will reduce latency without delaying treatment of more severely injured people. RESULTS: A total of 13,918 new patients were observed during the 10 week study period, 7117 (51.1%) in the first 5 weeks and 6801 (49.9%) in the next 5 weeks were separate Floran . The time spent recording physician's time range is 0 to 850 minutes. Comparison of the two 5-week periods showed an improvement in the percentage of patients waiting for less than 30 minutes and less than 60 minutes (p <0.0001). Relative risk of waiting for over 1 hour has decreased by 32%. Improving latency does not sacrifice more urgently needed patients

Impact of minor injury single flow between accident and emergency department latency