Multimorbidity clustering of the emergency department patient flow: Impact analysis of new unscheduled care clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In France, the number of emergency department (ED) admissions doubled between 1996 and 2016. To cope with the resulting crowding situation, redirecting patients to new healthcare services was considered a viable solution which would spread demand more evenly across available healthcare delivery points and render care more efficient. The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of opening new on-demand care services based on variations in patient flow at a large hospital emergency department.

Methods

We performed a before-and-after study investigating the use of unscheduled care services in the Aube region in eastern France, that focused on ED attendance at Troyes Hospital. A hierarchical clustering based on co-occurrence of diagnoses was applied which div

SUBMITTER: Wartelle A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8803184 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature