{"id":304,"date":"2024-04-08T02:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/?p=304"},"modified":"2024-08-12T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:41:01","slug":"w1-better-measurement-data-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/08\/w1-better-measurement-data-for-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"W1: Creating a hospital drum beat: improving daily patient flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><strong>26 August 2024 | 12:00-16:00<\/strong><\/p><br><p><em>Format: Workshop<\/em><br><em>Stream: n\/a<\/em><\/p><br><p>As pressure grows on hospital services, it can be easy to look outside for the answers. \u201cIf only\u2026<br>\u2026 there was better primary care.\u201d<br>\u2026 patients didn\u2019t choose to come to the ED.\u201d<br>\u2026 there were better pathways to community care.\u201d<br>\u2026 our government would invest more in healthcare services.\u201d<\/p><br><p>While these challenges (and many others) are real for most jurisdictions, they often require solutions that will not reduce demand on Emergency Departments in the near term.<\/p><br><p>This session will focus on how hospital teams can reduce delays for patients and the pressure on Emergency Departments by focusing on the daily flow within the hospital \u2013 leading to an environment that is safe and calm for both patients and staff.<\/p><br><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Outcomes<\/strong><\/span><br><br>By the end of this session, participants will:<\/p><br><ul><br><li>Understand the impact of misaligned flow across the hospital<\/li><br><li>Know where to focus first<\/li><br><li>Understand the key measures to use for improvement and monitoring of hospital flow<\/li><br><li>Have a simple tool to use to identify opportunities for improvement in their organisation.<\/li><br><\/ul><br><p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/09\/stephanie-easthope\/\"><strong>Stephanie Easthope<\/strong><\/a> Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Australia<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 August 2024 | 12:00-16:00Format: WorkshopStream: n\/aAs pressure grows on hospital services, it can be easy to look outside for the answers. \u201cIf only\u2026\u2026 there was better primary care.\u201d\u2026 patients didn\u2019t choose to come to the ED.\u201d\u2026 there were better pathways to community care.\u201d\u2026 our government would invest more in healthcare services.\u201dWhile these challenges (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}