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What strategies are used to select patients for direct admission under acute medicine services? A systematic review of the literature.

2024-09-11 emergency medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPressures on hospital emergency care services have led to increasing interest in new models of acute care provision. One such model is a medical emergency department where medical patients are triaged directly to acute internal medicine, without assessment by emergency medicine. The evidence for this model of care is unclear. DesignSystematic review. MethodsStudies included direct referral pathways to acute internal medicine. The protocol was registered prospectively (Prospero: CRD42...

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