Emergencyhospitaladmissionisdistressingforpatientsandcarers,itisassociatedwithagreaterriskofmortalityandlonger-termmorbidityandisexpensivetothehealthcaresystem.Increasingly,thelevelofemergencyadmissionsisbeingseenasamarkerofhowwellhealthsystemsareperforming(Purdyandothers,2012).AccordingtoTheKing'sFundestimates,emergencyadmissionsforambulatorycaresensitiveconditions(ACSCs)couldbereducedbybetween8and18percentsimplybytacklingvariationsincareandspreadingexistinggoodpractice(Tianetal2012).TheunderlyingprincipleofAmbulatoryEmergencyCare(AEC)isthatasignificantproportionofadultpatientsrequiringemergencycarecanbemanagedsafelyandappropriatelyonthesamedayeitherwithoutadmissiontoahospitalbedatall,orthroughadmissionforonlyafewhours
Published: 30/06/2017
Publisher: NHS Education for Scotland (NES)
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