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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"non-urgent"”.
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Examining The Choice To Seek Non-Urgent Urinary Tract Infection Treatment At Emergency Departments
Problem statement: Non-urgent emergency department (ED) utilization leads to greater risk of ED overcrowding and potentially negative outcomes for patients. Increased understanding of why some patients continue to use EDs for non-urgent care despite the increasing availability of lower cost …
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Non-Urgent Emergency Department Use: Exploring the Perceptions, Emotions, and Behaviours of Emergency Healthcare Providers
… for health concerns that could be managed in non-ED settings. ED healthcare providers (HCPs) often describe these visits as non-urgent. While previous research explored non-urgent ED use from the patient perspective, less is known about how HCPs experience and respond to such encounters. This …
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Defining urgent vs. non-urgent messaging in primary care to standardize workflow : a DNP project
… concerning the purpose, use, and boundaries of urgent vs. non-urgent messaging between call center staff, triage nurses, and providers. This is leading to mislabeling of such messaging and causing subsequent stress and frustration for triage nurses and providers. Purpose: The purpose of this …
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An Examination of Factors Affecting Non-Urgent Use of Emergency Department Services by Patients with "Universal" Healthcare
… research is to examine the factors affecting non-urgent utilization of emergency department (ED) services by individuals with "universal" healthcare using the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use. Since Air Force Medical Service beneficiaries have free and unlimited use of the full-range of …
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The Role of System-Level Primary Care Characteristics and Immigration Status as Predictors of Non-Urgent Emergency Department Presentations
Non-urgent health conditions are best served in primary care settings (e.g. family practices and walk-in clinics). Despite this, patients commonly present to emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent conditions, especially with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). This leads to poor patient …
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Reducing Non-urgent Utilization Of The Emergency Department By Self-pay Patients: Analysis Of The Impact Of A Community-wide Provider Network
… the behavior of the uninsured by decreasing non-urgent utilization of the emergency departments within a large, urban county. The literature on emergency department trends and interventions designed to decrease "inappropriate" or non-urgent use of the emergency departments was reviewed and …
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Emergency Department use: Why do patients choose the Emergency Department for medical care and how much does it really cost?
… analysis to determine the costs of providing non-urgent care in the ED. Results: Both a presenting symptom of a musculoskeletal injury (OR=2.93, CI 1.42-6.04) and having heard of TeleHealth Ontario (OR=2.08, CI1.08-4.03) were significantly associated with non-urgent ED use from the patient …
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An Evidence-Based Implementation Project on High Utilizers in the Emergency Department
… team to provide improved access for patients’ non-urgent healthcare needs. Prior to the education, a pre and post survey obtained a direct correlation between assessment and knowledge as a result of the education which was reflected utilizing the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test with a Z=278, p < …
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The paediatric journey to and through the emergencydepartment: the parent’s experience
… children visiting the emergency department with non-urgent illness continues to rise annually, with paediatric attendance representing over 25% of the total workload.This study investigated why parents chose to bring their child to the emergency department and explored the journey through parents …
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Production scheduling in a make-to-order job shop under job arrival uncertainty
… dates. The basic idea is to delay the release of non-urgent jobs and control the work in process (WIP) before the bottleneck so as to control the lead time of urgent jobs. We propose two job release control models: bounded constraint control model and linear control model. In the two models, we …
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The Role of Social Support and Spiritual Care in Numbers of ED Visits
… visits to the emergency room may be considered non-urgent. As such, there is a pressing need for exploration of non- traditional forms of care. This study seeks to perform an analysis of a secondary dataset on a segment of the uninsured and privately insured populations, as well as those with …
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Applying Canadian patient wait time benchmarks to diagnostic CT examinations for non-small cell lung cancer in American healthcare
… (CT), such as imaging and guided biopsies for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), resulted in larger and more advanced stage tumors. In this study, patients had to wait approximately 81 days between those two procedures, and as a result, their prognoses and quality of life significantly …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… all of which is accounted for by a reduction in non-urgent visits that could be treated in alternative settings. The reduction in non-urgent and primary-care treatable visits is most pronounced during regular office hours when physician's offices are likely to be open. In contrast, I find no …
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Improving Access to Care through Web Based Appointment
… improving the self-awareness of self-scheduling non-urgent appointment visits for the healthy population. This project focuses on the college health population, as it improve patient access and develop a change in practice within the health center setting that delivers a safe, effective, …
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Impacting Patient Care Experiences: Hourly Rounding
… an estimated 12-15 in an eight hour shift for non-urgent needs. Upon interviewing many staff, I found there was an inconsistent way and lack of education on how hourly rounds should be performed. Basic patient needs were not addressed within each visit from a staff member. By using a process …
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Colorectal cancer: a comparative study of models of health care delivery in two adjacent trusts in South Wales
… Results Trust A has a higher emergency and urgent workload. The overall pick up of early cancers is similar in both Trusts. However, there is a higher pick up rate of early colorectal cancer in Trust A, when GPs accessed the specialist service using an urgent referral through the elective …
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Patterns of mortality in children presenting to a tertiary paediatric emergency unit in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross sectional study
… Red (emergency), orange (priority) and Green (non-urgent). Patient management was assessed by means of ETAT and the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) tools, which is used to identify severity of illness and strategize treatment plans accordingly. Results A total of 135 children …
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Triage in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments
… written criteria for the redirection of these non-urgent patients. The practice of ordering investigations and treating minor problems without referring to a doctor could also compromise patient safety, as most departments do not have written policies and guidelines to cover this practice. Most …
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Appraisal of free online symptom checkers and applications for self-diagnosis and triage: An Australian evaluation
… artificial intelligence (AI) outperformed non-AI with the first listed diagnosis being accurate in 46% (95% CI 40–57) versus 32% (95% CI 26–38) of SCVT. Individual symptom checker performance varied considerably, with the average rate of correct diagnosis provided first ranging between …
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Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital Emergency Department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the Elders Risk Assessment Index
… presentations; they are classed as semi or non-urgent and are discharged home. Research also shows that ED use among elderly patients is everincreasing and the elderly population is at increased risk of return visits to ED. Effective discharge planning from the ED to home assists patients …
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