Admission of medical patients from the emergency department: An assessment of the attitudes, perspectives and practices of internal medicine and emergency medicine trainees

Autor: Sean Lawrence, Robert Eley, Clair Sullivan, Michael Sinnott, Nadia Patel, Lyndall Spencer
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Emergency Medicine Australasia. 28:391-398
ISSN: 1742-6731
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12604
Popis: Objective We sought to obtain a deeper understanding of the differing needs and expectations of inpatient and ED medical staff regarding the admission process for medical patients. Design Online questionnaire regarding their attitudes to and perceptions of various aspects of the admission process was used. Setting The setting is a tertiary 640-bed adult hospital with over 60 000 ED presentations per year and an inpatient admission rate of 30%. Results A total of 42 out of 56 (75%) internal medical trainees (IMT) felt that the ED admission workup standard was lower or much lower than the inpatient standard; however, 10 of 16 (62.5%) ED trainees (EDT) thought it was similar (P = 0.009). Regarding why IMT order additional tests in the ED, the major reason supported by IMT was to ‘identify or exclude urgent pathology’ (53/56, 96.4%); however, this reason ranked only fifth for EDT (2/16, 12.5%) who ranked ‘to ensure nothing was missed’ (12/15, 80%) first. A total of 24 out of 56 (42.8%) IMT felt that if ED admissions were enacted without IMT review, inappropriate admissions to hospital would occur regularly although only one of 16 EDT (6.3%) agreed (P = 0.025). A total of 14 out of 16 (87.5%) EDT but only 16 of 56 (23.2%) IMT were comfortable with admissions occurring without inpatient review in the ED (P
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