ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2015
Testing the AMB score - can it distinguish patients who are suitable for ambulatory care?
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- Strategies to identify medical patients suitable for management through same-day emergency care services: A systematic review.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Enhancing the accuracy of a multivariable prediction model to identify medical patients suitable for same day emergency care services.BMJ health & care informatics · 2026Article
- Provision of medical same day emergency care services within the UK: analysis from the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit.BMJ open · 2025Article
- What is the existing evidence base for adult medical Same Day Emergency Care in UK NHS hospitals? A scoping review.Future healthcare journal · 2024Article
- What is the existing evidence base for adult medical same day emergency care in UK NHS hospitals? A scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- How do we identify acute medical admissions that are suitable for same day emergency care?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2022Review
- Process of care and activity in a clinically inclusive ambulatory emergency care unit: progressive effect over time on clinical outcomes and acute medical admissions.Future healthcare journal · 2020Article
- Ambulatory emergency care: how should acute generalists manage risk in undifferentiated illness?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
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Abstract
The Royal College of Physicians' Acute care toolkit 10 has recommended the use of the AMB score as an aid to determining patients suitable for ambulatory care. As this score has only been previously validated in one centre, the present study calculated the score of 200 patients referred to the medical take to see if it successfully identified patients who had a length of stay of less than 12 hours. In our test centre, the score was found to have a reduced sensitivity compared with the original centre (88 vs 96%) and a positive predictive value of 39%. Therefore in our hospital this was not a useful scoring system, and other trusts need to be aware that the AMB score may not be as effective as the original study suggested.
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