SynthesisBMC emergency medicine2019
Costs and effects of interventions targeting frequent presenters to the emergency department: a systematic and narrative review.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Reducing Repeat Emergency Department Visits for Low-Acuity Patients Using a Healthcare Connection Program.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
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- Characteristics for Low, High and Very High Emergency Department Use for Mental Health Diagnoses from Health Records and Structured Interviews.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Supporting High-impAct useRs in Emergency Departments (SHarED) quality improvement: a mixed-method evaluation.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Transitions in health care settings for frequent and infrequent users of emergency departments: a population-based retrospective cohort study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Interventions to Reduce Repeat Presentations to Hospital Emergency Departments for Mental Health Concerns: A Scoping Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Defining a threshold above which an adult can be considered to frequently use ambulance services: a retrospective cross-sectional study of emergency calls to an ambulance service in England.British paramedic journal · 2023Article
- Analysis of Emergency Department Encounters Among High Users of Health Care and Social Service Systems Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of a targeted telephone-based case management service on activity in an Emergency Department in the UK: a pragmatic difference-in-differences evaluation.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- A new paradigm in management of frequent attenders to emergency departments with severe alcohol use disorder-A pilot study for assertive community treatment in Singapore.Frontiers in health services · 2022Article
- Monthly Identification of High Frequency Emergency Presenters to Improve Care Delivery and Evaluation: A Unique Methodological Approach.Ochsner journal · 2022Article
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- Identifying subgroups and risk among frequent emergency department users in British Columbia.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious systematic reviews have examined the effectiveness of interventions for frequent presenters to the Emergency Department (ED) but not the costs and cost-effectiveness of such interventions.
methodA systematic literature review was conducted which screened the following databases: Pubmed, Medline, Embase, Cochrane and Econlit. An inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed following PRISMA guidelines. A narrative review methodology was adopted due to the heterogeneity of the reporting of the costs across the studies.
resultsOne thousand three hundred eighty-nine papers were found and 16 were included in the review. All of the interventions were variations of a case management approach. Apart from one study which had mixed results, all of the papers reported a decrease in ED use and costs. There were no cost effectiveness studies.
conclusionThe majority of interventions for frequent presenters to the ED were found to decrease ED use and cost. Future research should be undertaken to examine the cost effectiveness of these interventions.
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