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Title | ||
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Linking Patient Alone Time and Provider Time to Staffing Levels and LOS at the Emergency Department: A RFID Based Study |
Abstract | ||
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Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) technology use in health care services has been shown to save lives, prevents errors, save costs and increases security. Implementation of RFID technology has been challenged with high implementation costs, substantial gap between technology implementation costs and the RFID-enabled benefits, lack of common standard of usage/data analysis and low operational performance level in a harsh environment. Yet, there is a growing interest of RFID use in health care sector which has attracted many researchers to investigate potential opportunities in many specialties especially the Emergency Department (ED) where critical and quality care is sought for life saving service in a timely fashion. In this work, RFID data within the ED was used to quantify 'patient alone' time and 'total provider time' which is studied to establish the relationship between Length of Stay (LOS) and physician staffing levels. Surprisingly, results indicate that LOS has no relationship between patient alone time and provider time. With respect to physician staffing at the ED, more physicians within a LOS period leads to longer patient alone time. Average patient alone time increases initially and then significantly drops with increase in patient to physician ratio. These finding motivates further investigation on larger dataset for validation which can provide insights to strategize allocation of health care workers for more focused service to improve care, reduce LOS and subsequently reduce the cost and improve operating capacity of the ED. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1109/ICHI.2016.17 | 2016 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
operating capacity,health care workers,physician staffing levels,length-of-stay,total provider time,life saving service,low operational performance level,usage-data analysis,health care services,radio frequency identification device technology,RFID based study,emergency department,patient alone time | Health care,Staffing,Emergency department,Operational performance,Technology implementation,Medical emergency,Radio-frequency identification,Medicine | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5090-6118-1 | 1 | 0.41 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| s arunachalam | 1 | 4 | 2.94 |
| Gomathi Marisamy | 2 | 1 | 0.75 |
| Mustafa Sir | 3 | 42 | 9.57 |
| David M Nestler | 4 | 6 | 2.19 |
| Thomas R. Hellmich | 5 | 3 | 1.13 |
| Kalyan S. Pasupathy | 6 | 21 | 9.19 |