Building Hospital Management Capacity to Improve Patient Flow for Cardiac Catheterization at a Cardiovascular Hospital in Egypt
Wong R, Hathi S, Linnander EL, Banna A, Maraghi M, Din R, Ahmed A, Hafez AR, Allam AA, Krumholz HM, Bradley EH. Building Hospital Management Capacity to Improve Patient Flow for Cardiac Catheterization at a Cardiovascular Hospital in Egypt. The Joint Commission Journal On Quality And Patient Safety 2012, 38: 147-153. PMID: 22533126, PMCID: PMC3427659, DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(12)38019-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCardiac catheterizationPre-post intervention studyPercentage of patientsPatient flowPre-intervention periodNational Heart InstituteCatheterization laboratory proceduresResource-limited settingsSubset of proceduresTotal patientsConsecutive patientsMiddle-income countriesCardiovascular HospitalPostintervention periodHeart InstituteHospital careHigh-income countriesQI interventionsPatientsCatheterization proceduresIntervention studiesCatheterizationPatient crowdingWard unitSignificant reduction