Waiting time in an urban accident and emergency department--a way to improve it.

Purpose: To decide how to introduce a new small-scale team counseling system to reduce the average waiting time of patients in Hong Kong hospitals and accidents and emergencies (A & E). Method: There were 1,264 cases and 1,319 cases of A & E during the 4 months before and after the introduction of the new small-scale team consultation system. The collected data included the average and range of patient wait times, and the number of patients in the various classification categories and their average waiting time. In this study, average daily attendance rate, hospitalization rate, number of complaints, and patient attendance rate were also recorded. Results: The average waiting time of patients before and after the introduction of the new system were 35.19 minutes and 22.04 minutes (0 to 134.0 minutes, respectively, 0 to 106.3 minutes). The average waiting time difference was 13.15 minutes, which was clinically and statistically significant (t = 81; P = 0.004). Other variables that affected patient latency and quality of service did not change much. Conclusion: The small team counseling system can shorten the patient's average waiting time without sacrificing the quality of existing services.

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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

Purpose: To decide how to introduce a new small-scale team counseling system to reduce the average waiting time of patients in Hong Kong hospitals and accidents and emergencies (A & E). Method: There were 1,264 cases and 1,319 cases of A & E during the 4 months before and after the introduction of the new small-scale team consultation system. The collected data included the average and range of patient wait times, and the number of patients in the various classification categories and their average waiting time. In this study, average daily attendance rate, hospitalization rate, number of complaints, and patient attendance rate were also recorded. RESULTS: The average waiting time for patients before and after the introduction of the new system were 35.19 minutes and 22.04 minutes (0 to 134.0 minutes respectively from 0 to 106.3 minutes).

Background: Emergency department latency is an important indicator to measure the quality of hospital services, which has a significant impact on patient satisfaction The aim of this study is to systematically review the patient's latency in hospital emergencies and Meta analysis was to do. Iran's division method: To collect data from the Web of Science, Embase, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, SID, and Iran Medex databases, use the following keywords: Search for articles "Emergency Room", "Emergency Room", "Wait Time", "Time Delay" "First Visit", "Initial Treatment", "Emergency Department", "Iran", and their Persian equivalent In order to select the time zone from 2000 to 2016 please. 2 (integrated meta-analysis) software

Patient latency in emergency departments of Iranian hospitals: systematic review and meta-analysis