Measuring patient safety in the emergency department

Measuring patient safety in the emergency department

PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN HEALTH CARE 2
The first journal, measuring patient safety in the emergency department, proposes four
measures that are concerned with measuring patient safety. The four measures proposed include
emergency department safety measures, how errors in the system are identified and corrected,
how often appropriate interventions are delivered and how often the patients are harmful (Pham
et al., 2014). The second journal, measures of crowding in the emergency department: a
systematic review, talks about the measures that can be put into place to address crowding in the
emergency department. According to Hwang et al. (2011), some of the measures proposed by the
journal include output factors, input factors, multidimensional scales and clinician opinion. The

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