title: Four Ways to Design a Better ED.
abstract: As these hospitals have shown, when emergency department wait times go down and throughput speeds up, quality of care, work efficiency and even patient volumes benefit. Here's how they did it.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eagle
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013997:Time Factors; D014218:Triage / Q000458:organization & administration; D014850:Waiting Lists; D057188:Workflow