Acute Care

Reduce patient’s length of stay in the Emergency Department by redefining patients’ journeys

Disclaimers and references


References

Ref: OECD (2017), Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264266414-en.

Ref: Uscher-Pines, L., Pines, J., Kellermann, A., Gillen, E., & Mehrotra, A. (2013). Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions: systematic literature review. The American journal of managed care, 19(1), 47–59.

Ref: Sheraton, M., Gooch, C., & Kashyap, R. (2020). Patients leaving without being seen from the emergency department: A prediction model using machine learning on a nationwide database. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 1(6), 1684–1690. https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12266


Clinical disclaimers

This example is just for illustration purposes. It presumes an institution/hospital is looking for ways to improve patient management processes in a specific context in which clinical decision support systems can be a tool to help healthcare professionals achieve that indirectly. UpHill Route does not claim any direct clinical benefit leading to patient length of stay reduction in emergency departments.

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