The continuing rise in emergency admissions.

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.

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.

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Effectiveness and safety of chest pain assessment to prevent emergency admissions: ESCAPE cluster randomised trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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2. Can additional experienced staff reduce emergency medical admissions?Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2004
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3. Continuing rise in emergency admissions. Visiting elderly patients at home immediately after discharge reduces emergency readmissions.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996
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4. "It's Been Ugly": A Large-Scale Qualitative Study into the Difficulties Frontline Doctors Faced across Two Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5. Pattern of surgical emergencies in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.African health sciences · 2019
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6. Emergency general surgery 'Hot Clinics' reduce admission rates and duration of inpatient stay.Frontline gastroenterology · 2017
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7. 'Ebb and flow by the moon': can we do better in hospital?Future hospital journal · 2015
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8. Patient satisfaction following emergency admission via a surgical assessment unit and an emergency department.Irish journal of medical science · 2013
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9. Emergency Operating Room Workload Pattern: A Single Center Experience from Southern Iran.Bulletin of emergency and trauma · 2013
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10. Emergency medical readmission: long-term trends and impact on mortality.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2011
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11. On-call emergency workload of a general surgical team.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock · 2009
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12. Emergency room surgical workload in an inner city UK teaching hospital.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2008
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13. The dedicated emergency surgeon: towards consultant-based acute surgical admissions.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2008
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14. Effect of an acute medical admission unit on key quality indicators assessed by funnel plots.Postgraduate medical journal · 2007
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15. Short stay emergency admissions to a West Midlands NHS Trust: a longitudinal descriptive study, 2002 2005.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2007
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16. Emergency department census of patients awaiting admission following reorganisation of an admissions process.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2006
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17. Mortality of the users of a hospital emergency department.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2006
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18. Factors influencing emergency medical readmission risk in a UK district general hospital: A prospective study.BMC emergency medicine · 2005
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19. The surgical assessment unit--effective strategy for improvement of the emergency surgical pathway?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2005
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20. A framework for operational modelling of hospital resources.Health care management science · 2002
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Corrections and comments

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  Continuing rise in emergency admissions. GPs' low morale is contributing factor.1996
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  Continuing rise in emergency admissions. Reduce time from referral by GP to first outpatient attendance.1996
• Commented on by
  Continuing rise in emergency admissions. Visiting elderly patients at home immediately after discharge reduces emergency readmissions.1996
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  Acute medicine needs to be available 365 days a year.2000

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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