The effectiveness and safety of emergency department short stay units: a rapid review

Emergency department overcrowding is a serious and ongoing issue across Canada. Short stay units (SSUs) have emerged as a potentially useful strategy for managing overcrowding in emergency departments. Members of The Ottawa Hospital senior management team contemplating the introduction of an SSU to...

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Autores principales: Konnyu, Kristin J, Kwok, Edmund, Skidmore, Becky, Moher, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2012
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Analysis and Comment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567078
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description Emergency department overcrowding is a serious and ongoing issue across Canada. Short stay units (SSUs) have emerged as a potentially useful strategy for managing overcrowding in emergency departments. Members of The Ottawa Hospital senior management team contemplating the introduction of an SSU to help alleviate emergency department overcrowding approached our rapid response service to conduct a rapid review on the safety and effectiveness of SSUs. This paper presents the process for conducting this review, its findings, and the end-user report generated for the senior management team and other stakeholders.
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spelling pubmed-33290702012-05-07 The effectiveness and safety of emergency department short stay units: a rapid review Konnyu, Kristin J Kwok, Edmund Skidmore, Becky Moher, David Open Med Analysis and Comment Emergency department overcrowding is a serious and ongoing issue across Canada. Short stay units (SSUs) have emerged as a potentially useful strategy for managing overcrowding in emergency departments. Members of The Ottawa Hospital senior management team contemplating the introduction of an SSU to help alleviate emergency department overcrowding approached our rapid response service to conduct a rapid review on the safety and effectiveness of SSUs. This paper presents the process for conducting this review, its findings, and the end-user report generated for the senior management team and other stakeholders. Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2012-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3329070/ /pubmed/22567078 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Open Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License, which means that anyone is able to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform this work and that authors retain copyright of their work. Any derivative use of this work must be distributed only under a license identical to this one and must be attributed to the authors. Any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. These conditions do not negate or supersede Fair Use laws in any country.
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