Researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine report that an experimental ER triage program that coordinated care with multiple departments at a Chicago hospital cut wait times of critically ill patients by more than two hours. Known as "Dr. Admit," the program aimed to help clinicians identify early on the most ill ED patients and reduce the time those patients had to wait by working closely with nurses, the lab, imaging and consulting resources. The goal was to facilitate inpatient admission within an hour of activating the process. In comparing the time from arrival and the admission entered into the EMR, patients in the pilot program were admitted within 192 minutes after arrival to the ER compared to the other patients who were admitted 329 minutes after arrival.
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