A group of nurses brainstorm about why patients are not being discharged by 2 PM
Failure to discharge on time has led to decreased patient satisfaction, physician complaints, and a backlog of patients in the emergency department awaiting a hospital bed. The nurses list possible causes of delayed charges on the graph above. The nurses utilized which quality improvement tool?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:
Cause-and-effect diagram
A cause-and-effect diagram is a quality improvement tool used for identifying and organizing possible causes of a problem in a structured format. It is sometimes called a fish-bone diagram because it looks like the skeleton of a fish.
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