Improving Patient Flow with Data-Driven Patient Prioritization Method in the Emergency Department

• Main Authors: TAN, Kar Way, LAM, Sean Shao Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Healthcare; Emergency department; analytics; Medicine and Health Sciences; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3204; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4205/viewcontent/ImprovingPatientFlowED_2015_InformsHealthcare.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We aim to improve the length-of-stay (LOS) of patients in the Emergency Department (ED) ambulatory care area. We propose the use of real-time computerized physician order entry data and ED patient flow management system to estimate the consultation time of patients re-entering the queue to consult a...