Quality Performance of a Transfer Center Reduces Interhospital Transfer and Direct Admission-Related ED Evaluations.
Journal
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality
ISSN: 1555-824X
Titre abrégé: Am J Med Qual
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9300756
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
pubmed:
16
5
2021
medline:
1
2
2022
entrez:
15
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Transfer centers play a vital role in the efficient triage of hospital admission requests that generate outside the emergency department (ED) of the given facility. This cohort study includes all the calls processed through the transfer center requesting an admission to Mayo Clinic, Rochester, from January 2016 to December 2018. More than 116,000 transfer request calls were processed. Of these, about 65% (75,000) were accepted for ED evaluation or direct admission. Of the 75,000 patients, >50% were accepted as direct admits. Among patients accepted for direct admission, a trend toward reduced utilization of ED reevaluation at the receiving facility was noted from 2016 to 2018. A temporal trend of overall reduced ED utilization reflects the adeptness of the transfer center. An effective transfer center promotes value-based care, optimizes the workflow in a hospital, and augments hospital administrative decisions to allocate resources.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33990473
doi: 10.1097/01.JMQ.0000735520.04870.16
pii: 00008488-202201000-00003
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
14-21Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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