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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"LWBS"”.
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Waiting Room Rounding to Decrease LWBS
… the emergency department without being seen (LWBS) by a medical provider have been identified as a safety and liability risk as well as a profit loss. One high volume urban teaching emergency department (ED) in southern California has struggled with a percentage of LWBS well over the …
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Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Redesigning the Triage Process to Reduce the Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) Rate
… and timely care. The left-without-being-seen (LWBS) rate is a patient-centered outcome measure that reflects quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. A yearlong practice improvement project led by a clinical nurse leader was implemented in a local safety-net teaching hospital in its twenty-six …
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Triage Training: Improving Access to Care
<p>Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) rates have been described as “the gold standard of metrics” for high acuity units. In this project, the aim is to increase patient access to care by decreasing both wait times for patients and the LWBS rate for the unit, which approaches 6%. As part of a military …
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Studying The Impacts of Occupancy Rate on Length of Stay and Outcomes At The Emergency Department At The Regina General Hospital
… by 0.11%. It also reduces the odds ratio of LWBS by 1.2% for patients diagnosed with abdominal main problem, and 1.7% for patients diagnosed with other medical problems. Length of stay in index visit increases the length of stay in return visit by 0.3 hours; the median value of length of …