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How To Improve Emergency Physician Efficiency

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How To Improve Emergency Physician Efficiency

As patient volumes increase and health care resources become ever more stretched, it is now more important than ever that we as emergency physicians learn to practice with a high degree of efficiency without sacrificing the quality of our care. After reviewing the literature, speaking with a large number of physicians and reflecting, here are what I believe to be the best ways to improve your on shift efficiency:

  1. Leave every patient’s room with a plan for their disposition.
  2. Don’t defer decisions that can be made now.
  3. Don’t order tests that won’t change management.
  4. Whenever feasible order tests concurrently, not in sequence.
  5. Communicate the plan to nursing. Entering orders into the EMR is not enough.
  6. When a disposition can be made, do it now, do not delay.
  7. When working at night, see a few patients in the same area at once.
  8. SIT in the room with patients but STAND at the work desk.
  9. Start fast.
  10. Don’t cherry pick.

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