Interventions and strategies involving primary healthcare professionals to manage emergency department overcrowding: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To conduct a scoping review to identify and summarise the existing literature on interventions involving primary healthcare professionals to manage emergency department (ED) overcrowding.

Design

A scoping review.

Data sources

A comprehensive database search of Medline (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), Cochrane Library (Wiley) and CINAHL (EBSCO) databases was conducted (inception until January 2020) using peer-reviewed search strategies, complemented by a search of grey literature sources.

Eligibility criteria

Interventions and strategies involving primary healthcare professionals (PHCPs: general practitioners (GPs), nurse practitioners (NPs) or nurses with expanded role) to manage ED overcrowding.

Methods

We engaged and collaborated, with 13 patient part

SUBMITTER: Jeyaraman MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112422 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature