SAQ 779 – Administration – patient safety and did-not-wait strategies

After taking an active interest in preventing patient adverse events, your director allocates you to the Patient Safety portfolio.

List two (2) factors shown to increase patient adverse-event rates.

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Your department has an unacceptably high rate of patients who did not wait in the ED waiting room. List four (4) factors associated with patients who did not wait.

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Complete the table with three (3) strategies for each heading: preventing patients leaving without being seen, and managing patients who leave before being seen.

(Marked out of 6.0)
</p> <table class="saq-prop-table" style="width: 100%; max-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse;"> <thead> <tr> <th style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">Strategies to reduce leaving without being seen</th> <th style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">Strategies to manage patients who leave before being seen</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">1</td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">2</td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;">3</td> <td style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; word-break: normal; white-space: normal; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: border-box;"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>

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Total Score: 0 / 12

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