Improving Patient Flow and Access to Care at an Academically Affiliated Urban Safety-Net Hospital
| Autor: | Christopher Piatz, Melanie Rylander, Christian Thurstone, Amanda Klahr, Dana Houlton, Mara Prandi-Abrams, Brooke Sixta, Chelsea Wolf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adult
Inpatients medicine.medical_specialty Quality management Adolescent business.industry Safety net Length of Stay medicine.disease Quality Improvement Mental health Health Services Accessibility Unit (housing) Health administration Hospitalization Psychiatry and Mental health Work (electrical) Multidisciplinary approach Acute care medicine Humans Medical emergency business Safety-net Providers |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatric Services. 72:978-981 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9700 1075-2730 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/appi.ps.202000379 |
| Popis: | Access to inpatient psychiatric beds remains a significant barrier to care for patients having a mental health crisis. A quality improvement initiative described here was designed to increase access to care by increasing efficiency of health care delivery on an adult and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit. Design and implementation centered on collaborative relationships among hospital administration, physician leadership, frontline physicians, and members of the multidisciplinary treatment team. Initial 5 months of data indicated significant improvements in care access as measured by number of encounters on both units. Reductions in length of stay were made possible by optimizing internal work flows and standardizing goals of hospitalization. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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