http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/12/does-ed-overcrowding-affect-outcomes-or-costs/ A blog from inside the emergency department Thu, 23 May 2013 06:31:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/12/does-ed-overcrowding-affect-outcomes-or-costs/#comment-110003 Cynthia Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:30:34 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=8827#comment-110003 You forgot to mention the most flawed and potentially most costly quality indicator of them all, the one that’s based on patient satisfaction. That’s the Kool-Aid that I’ll never, ever drink no matter how hard the Stepford-inspired Studer-Bots try to enticed me into drinking it!

]]> http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/2012/12/does-ed-overcrowding-affect-outcomes-or-costs/#comment-109805 girlvet Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:40:48 +0000 http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat/?p=8827#comment-109805 If you think that the patients in the ER are getting the nursing attention they may need from the nurses when we are bursting at the seams or when we are down nurses, you are kidding yourself.

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