Tidsmål inom akutsjukvården
En studie av Södersjukhusets akutmottagning
The 1st of January 2009 a new goal was set for the emergency care in Stockholms läns landsting. This new goal stated that 70 per cent of the patients shall not spend more than four hours in the hospital when requesting emergency care. The processes in the emergency room at Södersjukhuset do not cope with this new goal. The authors studied the reasons for this and made suggestions based on the findings. The conclusions were that the emergency room should place doctors much earlier in the emergency care process or implement a system where specialists act as tutors to non-specialized doctors. Furthermore, the scheduling of doctors in the emergency room should reflect the demand from patients for emergency care. This is not the case today. Lastly it was found that the doctors are not motivated enough to reach the goal today and other means than budgetary punishments from landstinget should be used to motivate them.