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Author Wiler, Jennifer L

Title Value and Quality Innovations in Acute and Emergency Care
Published West Nyack : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents 1. Fifty years of transformation of acute and emergency care -- 2. Fragmentation in acute and emergency care causes, consequences, and solutions -- 3. Measuring and improving quality of care -- 4. Alternative payment models in acute, episodic care: moving from volume to value -- 5. Improving timeliness and access of acute and emergency care: the science of improving emergency department crowding -- 6. Bringing the patient voice into emergency care -- Case Study 1. Expanding the role of observation care -- Case study 2. An innovative strategy to streamline care for behavioral health in the emergency department -- Case study 3. The geriatric emergency department -- Case study 4. How the United Kingdom responded to the 4-hour rule -- Case study 5. High-cost users: using information technology to streamline care plans -- Case study 6. Emergency care in an integrated healthcare delivery system: the Kaiser experience -- Case study 7. Urgent care centers: an alternative to unscheduled primary care and emergency department care -- Case study 8. The "no-wait" emergency department -- Case study 9. Transforming care delivery through telemedicine -- Case study 10. Coordinating emergency care through telemedicine -- Case study 11. Bringing diagnostic testing to the bedside: point of care testing -- Case study 12. Regionalization of care -- Case study 13. Clinical decision support tools -- Case study 14. Automated patient follow-up program -- Case study 15. Using data on patient experience to improve clinical care -- Case study 16. Community paramedicine: the Geisinger experience -- Case study 17. Initiating palliative care in the emergency department -- Case study 18. Streamlining patient flow in the emergency department with discrete event simulation -- Case study 19. Using emergency department community health workers as a bridge to ongoing care for frequent ED users -- Case study 20. Big data: use of analytics for operations management
Summary Access to acute and emergency care is essential when we are ill or injured, but the costs are significant. How can we make services more efficient and effective? This thought-provoking text provides twenty case studies detailing successful innovations to enhance value, including telehealth, observation medicine, high utilizer programs, and the use of informatics to improve clinical decision support. A detailed history of system developments over the last fifty years in the US and internationally is provided, and subjects including measurement and quality improvement, volume versus value based care, and emergency department crowding are discussed. This book is an ideal way for emergency physicians and healthcare managers to explore new ideas and enhance the quality of care in their area
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Subject Emergency medicine.
Medical emergencies.
Emergencies
Emergency Treatment
Acute Disease -- therapy
Emergency Medicine -- trends
Emergency Medicine -- economics
Quality of Health Care
Emergency Medicine
Medical emergencies
Emergency medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Pines, Jesse M
Ward, Michael J
ISBN 9781316779965
1316779963