Measuring impact of telephone triage in Acute Medicine.

Autor:	Asmat H; MRCP, Department of Medicine, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor UK., Shinwari SK; Department of Medicine, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor UK., Cooksley T; MRCP, Department of Acute Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, UK., Duckitt R; FRCP, Department of Acute Medicine, Worthing Hospital, Worthing, UK., Le Jeune I; BMBCh, BA, MRCP, PhD. Department of Research and Education in Emergency medicine, Acute medicine and Major trauma (DREEAM), Nottingham University Hospitals NUH Trust, Nottingham, UK., Subbe CP; DM, MRCP. Senior Clinical Lecturer, Bangor University, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor, UK.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Acute medicine [Acute Med] 2017; Vol. 16 (3), pp. 104-106.
Abstrakt:	The Society for Acute Medicine's Benchmarking Audit (SAMBA) was undertaken for the 5th time in June 2016. For the first time, data on telephone triage calls prior to admission to Acute Medical Units were collected: 1238 patients were referred from Emergency Departments, 925 from General Practitioners (GPs), 52 from clinics and 147 from other sources. Calls from Emergency Departments rarely resulted in admission avoidance. Calls from Primary Care resulted in avoidance of an admission in 115 (12%) patients; the percentage of avoided admissions was highest if the call was taken by a Consultant. Consultant triage might result in admission avoidance but the impact of local context on the effectiveness is not clear.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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