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Full-Text Articles in Emergency Medicine
Decreasing Length Of Stay In Pediatric Urgent Care With Electronic Discharge Instructions, Jennifer Wooster, Aimy Patel, Brian R. Lee, Amanda Nedved
Decreasing Length Of Stay In Pediatric Urgent Care With Electronic Discharge Instructions, Jennifer Wooster, Aimy Patel, Brian R. Lee, Amanda Nedved
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Time spent waiting in the urgent care clinic is dissatisfying for patient and staff. This "wasted time" accounted for more than 52% of the urgent care visit at our urgent care.
The aim of our project is to decrease length of stay by 10 minutes by April 30, 2019 for all patients discharged from Blue Valley Urgent Care by offering patients a paperless depart process. To be eligible for discharge without paper families must be enrolled in the online patient portal.
Electronic discharge instructions significantly decrease length of stay and is associated with improved patient experience scores. Patients who received …
Optimizing Antibiotic Management Of Pediatric Acute Otitis Media In An Emergency Department, Alicia Daggett, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Nirav Shastri, Patricia Phillips, Rana E. El Feghaly
Optimizing Antibiotic Management Of Pediatric Acute Otitis Media In An Emergency Department, Alicia Daggett, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Nirav Shastri, Patricia Phillips, Rana E. El Feghaly
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Problem
Children diagnosed with acute otitis media (AOM) at the Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas Emergency Department routinely get antibiotic prescriptions. There is rarely discussion with families about watchful waiting (defined as discussion of observation with parents and providing a safety-net antibiotic prescription that parents can ill if the patient is not improving or is worsening over the next 48 hours).
The aim of this quality improvement project is to increase watchful waiting for AOM at the CMK ED by 20% by March 2020, with an overall goal of decreasing antibiotic use for AOM.
Making The Management Of Acute Otitis Media A Snap, Cassandra Newell, Donna Wyly, Tanis Stewart, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Rana El Feghaly
Making The Management Of Acute Otitis Media A Snap, Cassandra Newell, Donna Wyly, Tanis Stewart, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Rana El Feghaly
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AIM:
To improve Watchful Waiting or Safety Net Antibiotic Prescription (WW/SNAP) in children >6 months old diagnosed with acute otitis media by Advanced Practice Nurses in the Emergency Department by May 2020.
Assessment And Improvement Of Data Collection Errors Through Inter-Departmental Collaboration, Charlott Williams, Kelli L. Behr, Mary Moffatt, Rangaraj Selvarangan
Assessment And Improvement Of Data Collection Errors Through Inter-Departmental Collaboration, Charlott Williams, Kelli L. Behr, Mary Moffatt, Rangaraj Selvarangan
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Specific Aims:
- To maintain the ED team's high rate of accuracy in data collection
- To begin team participation in corrective action planning
- To improve interdepartmental problem solving
Conclusion
Open communication about errors among all collaborating departments, combing with a shared approach to solving them:
- improved morale and perception of error tracking by the team
- led to a decrease in errors overall, and
- increased interdepartmental collaboration
When all members of the interdepartmental team work together with a positive approach to corrective action, improvement in error rates is a natural outcome of the solutions derived.
Improving Bronchiolitis Care Across Multiple Care Settings Using A Deimplementation Bundle, Amanda Nedved, Kathleen Berg, Troy Richardson, Amanda Montalbano, Matthew B. Johnson
Improving Bronchiolitis Care Across Multiple Care Settings Using A Deimplementation Bundle, Amanda Nedved, Kathleen Berg, Troy Richardson, Amanda Montalbano, Matthew B. Johnson
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Despite the availability of a bronchiolitis CPG; variation in care practices still existed at our institution. The aim of our quality improvement (QI) project was to increase overall adherence with our institutional CPG in patients 60 days to 24 months of age diagnosed with bronchiolitis in the urgent care centers (UCC), emergency departments (ED), and general inpatient units from a baseline of 40.9% to 60% by the end of two bronchiolitis seasons.
Utility Of Point-Of-Care Beta-Hydroxybutyrate Testing For Predicting Diabetic Ketoacidosis In The Pediatric Emergency Department, Michelle Knoll, Kelsee Halpin, Ryan Mcdonough
Utility Of Point-Of-Care Beta-Hydroxybutyrate Testing For Predicting Diabetic Ketoacidosis In The Pediatric Emergency Department, Michelle Knoll, Kelsee Halpin, Ryan Mcdonough
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The objective of our investigation was to describe the diagnostic characteristics of point-of-care capillary beta-hydroxybutyrate (BOHB) testing to predict diabetic ketoacidosis among pediatric patients presenting with hyperglycemia in the pediatric emergency department.