John Muir Medical Center

Mobile Clinical Decision Unit (CDU)

In: Urgent Matters Toolkit
By: George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services Center for Health Policy Research
Published: 9/1/2006

A Mobile Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) placed in the hospital’s parking lot offers a creative solution to the problem of a lack of space for a CDU. Creating this space for the CDU allows patients in need of observation to be moved out of the ED.

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