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ArticleFuture healthcare journal2023

Improving the safety and effectiveness of urgent and emergency care.

Agnelo Fernandes, James Ray

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Article in Future healthcare journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The bedrock of equitable healthcare.Future healthcare journal · 2023
    Article
  3. Progress in primary and integrated care.Future healthcare journal · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Agnelo FernandesParchmore Medical Centre, Thornton Heath, UK.
James RayOxford University Hospital Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delays and waiting in urgent and emergency care (UEC) services are causing avoidable harm to patients and affecting staff morale. Patients are often having a poor experience of using UEC services, increasing stress and anxiety for both their families and themselves, delaying their recovery. Despite the constraints of available permanent staffing, funding and competing NHS priorities, changes along the whole UEC pathway in and out of hospital, admitted and non-admitted pathways need to be made safe, timely and accessible, to provide clinically appropriate care for patients. Changes in clinician behaviour, culture, and training toward the management and sharing of clinical risk differently along the whole UEC pathway are also required. Modifying operational processes with a focus on patients in different UEC settings will improve productivity, flow and the patient experience. There is a need to do things differently rather than continuing as we are and expecting a different result to unlock the perennial UEC crisis.

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avoidable harmcultural changerisk sharingtransformationurgent & emergency care

Identifiers

PMID38162221
PMCPMC10753205

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