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Critical Issues in Patient Triage

Critical Issues in Patient Triage

Huddle+ | Inefficiency Insights #34

Jared Dashevsky, MD
May 23, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Inefficiency Insights are brief quality improvement reports analyzing key healthcare inefficiencies.

Problem One-liner

Emergency departments in large hospitals face significant challenges in efficiently triaging patients, leading to lengthy wait times, misallocation of resources, and varying levels of care that do not always align with patient needs.

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