Capacity | ||||||||||
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Total | Under capacity | Good balance | At capacity | Over capacity | P | |||||
n | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
High-impact solutions | ||||||||||
Inpatient full capacity protocols | 68 | 7 | 10% | 17 | 25% | 17 | 25% | 27 | 40% | 0.03 |
Inpatient discharge coordination | 196 | 21 | 11% | 66 | 34% | 53 | 27% | 56 | 29% | 0.21 |
Surgical Schedule Smoothing | 110 | 10 | 9% | 35 | 32% | 31 | 28% | 34 | 31% | 0.63 |
Additional solutions | ||||||||||
Bedside registration/eliminating triage | 206 | 26 | 13% | 70 | 34% | 52 | 25% | 58 | 28% | 0.03 |
Fast track units | 144 | 12 | 8% | 23 | 16% | 46 | 32% | 63 | 44% | <0.001 |
Observations units | 69 | 4 | 6% | 26 | 38% | 17 | 25% | 22 | 32% | 0.16 |
Physician triage | 42 | 3 | 7% | 7 | 17% | 12 | 29% | 20 | 48% | 0.005 |
Cancelling elective surgeries | 68 | 10 | 15% | 22 | 32% | 16 | 24% | 20 | 29% | 0.45 |
Non-effective solutions | ||||||||||
ED bed expansion | 108 | 9 | 8% | 33 | 31% | 31 | 29% | 35 | 32% | 0.20 |
Diverted patients | ||||||||||
Left before being seen, median (IQR) | 266 | 26 | 1 (1–2) | 87 | 1 (1–3) | 81 | 2 (1–3) | 72 | 3 (2–4) | <0.001 |
Ambulance diversion hours/month, median (IQR) | 134 | 15 | 10 (2–35) | 26 | 4 (2–30) | 41 | 10 (4–15) | 52 | 18 (5–58) | 0.08 |