Abstract
Ambulance patient offload delays in the emergency department have been determined to be harmful to patients, costly to the emergency medical service companies, and stressful for the ED staff. To date, research has only proposed costly and risky options to address this issue. This study aimed to develop an individualized plan for an emergency department to reduce their ambulance patient offloading times without additional staff or physical space.
Sigma Membership
Non-member
Lead Author Affiliation
St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California, USA
Type
Poster
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Quasi-Experimental Study, Other
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Emergency Department, Ambulance Offloading, Offloading Delay, Educational Intervention, Throughput
Recommended Citation
Yttri, Heidi and Hultner, Jolie, "Ambulance offload delay: A process map to improvement" (2020). General Submissions: Presenations (Oral and Poster). 89.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/gen_sub_presentations/2020/posters/89
Conference Name
Emergency Nursing 2020
Conference Host
Emergency Nurses Association
Conference Location
Virtual Event
Conference Year
2020
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Review Type
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Ambulance offload delay: A process map to improvement
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Ambulance patient offload delays in the emergency department have been determined to be harmful to patients, costly to the emergency medical service companies, and stressful for the ED staff. To date, research has only proposed costly and risky options to address this issue. This study aimed to develop an individualized plan for an emergency department to reduce their ambulance patient offloading times without additional staff or physical space.