论文信息 - Tracking the patient journey by combining multiple hospital database systems.

Tracking the patient journey by combining multiple hospital database systems.

With new national targets for patient flow in public hospitals designed to increase efficiencies in patient care and resource use, better knowledge of events affecting length of stay will support improved bed management and scheduling of procedures. This paper presents a case study involving the integration of material from each of three databases in operation at one tertiary hospital and demonstrates it is possible to follow patient journeys from admission to discharge.

Erhan Kozan | Michael Sinnott | Andy Wong | Lyndall Spencer | Robert Eley

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