%0 Journal Article
%T SurgeCon: Priming a Community Emergency Department for Patient Flow Management
%A Christopher Patey
%A Kris Aubrey-Bassler
%A Mehdee Araee
%A Oliver Hurley
%A Paul Norman
%A Sarah Boyd
%A Shabnam Asghari
%A Thomas Heeley
%J Archive of "Western Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.5811/westjem.2019.5.42027
%X Canadian emergency departments (ED) are struggling to provide timely emergency care. Very few studies have assessed attempts to improve ED patient flow in the rural context. We assessed the impact of SurgeCon, an ED patient-management protocol, on total patient visits, patients who left without being seen (LWBS), length of stay for departed patients (LOSDep), and physician initial assessment time (PIA) in a rural community hospital ED
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6625694/