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Express admission: an experiment in front-end redesign

M A Keyes, J Biedron

    Nursing Management
    |October 1, 1995
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    Streamlining the hospital admitting process significantly reduced patient admission time to just 80 minutes. This optimized procedure is expected to decrease overall patient length of stay.

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    Area of Science:

    • Healthcare Administration
    • Process Improvement
    • Patient Flow Management

    Background:

    • Traditional hospital admission processes can be lengthy and complex.
    • Inefficiencies in the first 24 hours of admission can impact patient experience and resource utilization.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To redesign and optimize the hospital admitting procedure.
    • To reduce the time required for patient admission processes.

    Main Methods:

    • Simplification and compression of all processes within the first 24 hours post-admission.
    • Centralization of admissions procedures.

    Main Results:

    • Actual admitting time was reduced to 80 minutes.
    • The redesigned procedure demonstrated significant time savings.

    Conclusions:

    • Centralizing and simplifying the admitting process is effective in reducing admission time.
    • The optimized admitting procedure is likely to result in a decreased patient length of stay.

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