Effect of the Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments time target policy on key indicators of quality of care.

Abstract

Introduction of the Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments target was not associated with any clinically important or statistically significant changes in the time to treatment and adequacy of care for five different clinical indicators of quality of care in Aotearoa New Zealand. For those indicators measured at one site only, it is unknown whether these results can be generalised to other sites.