Nurse management of minor problems in primary care emergencies: a non-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems must implement strategies to adapt to the high demand in primary care caused by social changes. Since 2009, the Catalan Institute of Health has been expanding the Nurse Demand Management programme through which nursing autonomously addresses minor health problems. This study aims to analyse whether this programme is a factor in improving the efficiency and quality of care in a primary care emergency centre. The results come from a non-randomised controlled experimental study that tested the implementation of the programme applied to an experimental group treated by nurses versus a control group treated by doctors. The study was approved on 14 July 2022 by the Research Ethics Committee of the Jordi Gol University Institute following the guidelines of the TR

SUBMITTER: Estarlich-Corominas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758717 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature