The hospital is best described as a machine. As a machine, its performance should be well tuned up. In other words, the hospital must be efficient. Speed and time are at a premium when it comes to Africa health systems, because lives are at stake. Every second and minute count!
The emergency room is the best place to start. This is because the ER is where a number of urgent and non-urgent cases combine in order to create a queue or a bottleneck if the ER is not optimized.
It’s a fact that many of the admissions to the hospital come through the emergency room, but not all cases that go through the ER are to be admitted. Some are cases that could be handled by inpatient clinics had they been opened, but people opt to go through the ER because of the time.
So, one good reason to think about optimizing the emergency room process is the fact that healthcare systems in Cameroon become unable to treat emergency cases with the right urgency when there is no definite system in place that optimizes patient flow.
With ER optimization, nurses and other hospital staff are potentially able to effectively identify urgent and non-urgent cases so they can take the proper and timely intervention as needed by each patient. This, in turn, will improve a hospital’s efficiency and improve the reputation of the institution’s healthcare consulting in Littoral, Cameroon.
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