Applying health-six-sigma principles helps reducing the variability of length of stay in the emergency department.

Background: Reducing length of stay (LOS) is one of the urgent problems in healthcare systems worldwide. Popular methods that are used to reduce LOS are the Lean and the 6 Sigma, which in practice result in limited improvements. In this paper, we introduce and test a tailored method for implementing the 6 Sigma principles in healthcare (we call H-6S).

The effect of supportive emergency department nursing care on pain reduction of patients with Red Sea marine wildlife injuries.

Introduction: The emergency department at Yoseftal hospital in Eilat is on the shore of the Red Sea, and it is visited by patients with marine wildlife injuries. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of supportive nursing care on the pain level of patients with Red Sea marine wildlife injuries.

Method: A prospective quantitative study including 102 patients admitted to the emergency department.