Deficiencies in efficiency.
Technical advances in treating acute illness, particularly cardiac arrest, have outstripped the management capability allowed by the existing administrative structure of acute hospitals. Richard Shircore, service planning officer in SE Thames RHA, and Terry Garrison, a lecturer in management, put forward this view and suggest changes which they believe would improve emergency patient care.
D004526:Efficiency; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000639:trends*; D006113:United Kingdom