Emergency Department Efficiency in an Academic Hospital: A Simulation Study

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dc.contributor.advisorGolden, Bruce L.
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Katie
dc.contributor.authorKalowitz, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorKellegrew, Jay
dc.contributor.authorKubic, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorLim, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorSilberholz, John
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, Alex
dc.contributor.authorSze, Emily
dc.contributor.authorTaneja, Ekta
dc.contributor.authorTao, Edward
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-26T14:27:48Z
dc.date.available2010-05-26T14:27:48Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionGemstone Team HOPE (Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise)
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the effects of the resident education model on the efficiency of a teaching hospital emergency department. Patient data was collected from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. This data consisted of both patient information physically collected in the emergency department, as well as historical patient information accessed through the hospital’s electronic databases. Simulation modeling was then used to analyze in a statistically significant manner the effects of the resident education model on patient throughput in the emergency department. We determined that the presence of residents in the ED improves patient throughput for both high-priority and low-priority patients. However, this improvement is higher for lowpriority patients than for high-priority patients, which is a novel result. Future studies will entail determining how replacing residents with other types of personnel, such as nurse practitioners or other types of physicians, affects patient throughput.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10086
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGemstone Program, University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subjectHospitalen_US
dc.subjectEmergencyen_US
dc.subjectResident education modelen_US
dc.subjectPatienten_US
dc.subjectGemstone Team HOPE (Hospital Optimal Productivity Enterprise)
dc.titleEmergency Department Efficiency in an Academic Hospital: A Simulation Studyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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