Improving patient safety in the ED waiting room.

Fidela S J Blank; John Santoro; Ann M. Maynard; Deborah Provost; Marjorie Keyes

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Improving patient safety in the ED waiting room.

August 8, 2007

Blank FSJ, Santoro J, Maynard AM, et al. Journal of emergency nursing: JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association. 2007;33(4):331-5.

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The authors describe a program involving periodic reassessments of patients in the emergency department waiting room. The program aimed to improve triage for patients whose status had changed and to reduce instances of patients leaving without being seen.

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