Shan W Liu

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A pilot study examining undesirable events among emergency department-boarded patients awaiting inpatient beds
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 54:381-5. 2009
  2. ncbi A conceptual model for assessing quality of care for patients boarding in the emergency department: structure-process-outcome
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:430-5. 2011
  3. ncbi An empirical assessment of boarding and quality of care: delays in care among chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis patients
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:1339-48. 2011
  4. ncbi Emergency department crowding and risk of preventable medical errors
    Stephen K Epstein
    Department of Emergency Medicine, W CC 2, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Intern Emerg Med 7:173-80. 2012
  5. ncbi A mixed-methods study of the quality of care provided to patients boarding in the emergency department: comparing emergency department and inpatient responsibility models
    Shan W Liu
    1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 69:679-98. 2012

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi A pilot study examining undesirable events among emergency department-boarded patients awaiting inpatient beds
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 54:381-5. 2009
    ..We describe the frequency of undesirable events among patients boarding at a single, urban, tertiary, teaching emergency department (ED) through retrospective chart abstraction...
  2. ncbi A conceptual model for assessing quality of care for patients boarding in the emergency department: structure-process-outcome
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:430-5. 2011
    ..The goal of the conceptual model is to create a practical framework on which a research and policy agenda can be based to measure and improve quality of care for boarded patients...
  3. ncbi An empirical assessment of boarding and quality of care: delays in care among chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis patients
    Shan W Liu
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:1339-48. 2011
    ..To the best of our knowledge, no study has compared the quality of care of boarded and nonboarded patients...
  4. ncbi Emergency department crowding and risk of preventable medical errors
    Stephen K Epstein
    Department of Emergency Medicine, W CC 2, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Intern Emerg Med 7:173-80. 2012
    ..Further study is needed to determine the generalizability of these results. Should such research confirm our findings, we would suggest that mitigating ED crowding may reduce the occurrence of preventable medical errors...
  5. ncbi A mixed-methods study of the quality of care provided to patients boarding in the emergency department: comparing emergency department and inpatient responsibility models
    Shan W Liu
    1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 69:679-98. 2012
    ..A theoretically better responsibility model may not deliver better care to boarded patients because of cultural, resource prioritization, and systems issues...