Ideal length of stay in the ED

[KMATTOX at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/2007 9:57:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
andrewj.bowman at gmail.com writes:

What  then do we do about the attendings (fill in specialty here) who  are
reluctant to admit a patient without the complete  workup????


Create a hospital policy that allows, encourages, mandates that the EC  staff 
have the authority, and supported by the Medical Executive Committee to  
admit a patient to any hospital in-service where the service is slow to evaluate  
the patient or require that an entire work up occur there prior to going to an 
 in house bed.  
 
k



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