Emergency Department Navigator Interventions and Outcome Measures: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency department (ED) patient navigators are increasingly used, but a lack of understanding of how ED navigator interventions are designed, described, and evaluated creates gaps in our ability to understand, monitor and improve care. The purpose of this scoping review is to identify how the literature describes and evaluates ED patient navigator interventions for older people transitioning to a primary care setting.

Methods

A scoping review was conducted following the Johanna Briggs Institute updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews. We searched three databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL. We included English language articles without any restrictions on study designs that two reviewers screened. All articles focused on distinct ED

SUBMITTER: Parry K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959214 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature