title: System says ED patients will have zero wait times.
abstract: You can reduce your patient wait times to virtually zero with a lot of hard work, but you can't do it alone. It takes a combination of effective ED strategies and the cooperation of the other hospital departments. Create guidelines that cover the care the nurses can provide if the patient cannot see a physician right away. Establish a transitional unit outside of the ED but directed and managed by the ED manager. Urge the creation of and participation in a multi-discipline performance improvement team.
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010348:Patient Care Team; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D013997:Time Factors