Factors influencing the occurrence of ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the emergency department - a single-center cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and importance

The differentiation between patients who require urgent care and those who could receive adequate care through ambulatory services remains a challenge in managing patient volumes in emergency departments (ED). Different approaches were pursued to characterize patients that could safely divert to ambulatory care. However, this characterization remains challenging as the urgency upon presentation is assessed based on immediately available characteristics of the patients rather than on subsequent diagnoses. This work employs a core set of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (core-ACSCs) in an ED to describe conditions that do not require inpatient care if treated adequately in the ambulatory care sector. It subsequently analyzes the corresponding triage leve

SUBMITTER: Benning L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10665907 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature