Leading Process Improvement in a Pediatric Acute Care Hospital

摘要

Many healthcare organizations today are plagued with patient flow problems. One sign of this kind of problem occurs when patients are being boarded or held in the emergency department (ED) while waiting for an open bed in the hospital. Some may be children waiting for a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) bed and needing very specific types of care. When children do not get the intensive care they need, adverse events can take place (Healy-Rodriguez et al., 2014).