Assuring Quality Health Care in the Emergency Department

The provision of quality healthcare is an international mandate. The provision of quality healthcare for mental health patients poses unique challenges. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the emergency department. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe evidence-based initiatives for im...

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Autores principales: Letvak, Susan, Rhew, Denise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417792
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare3030726
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description The provision of quality healthcare is an international mandate. The provision of quality healthcare for mental health patients poses unique challenges. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the emergency department. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe evidence-based initiatives for improving the quality of care of mental health patients in the emergency department. Specifically, the use of telepsychiatry and reducing provider biases will be presented.
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spelling pubmed-49395722016-07-12 Assuring Quality Health Care in the Emergency Department Letvak, Susan Rhew, Denise Healthcare (Basel) Review The provision of quality healthcare is an international mandate. The provision of quality healthcare for mental health patients poses unique challenges. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the emergency department. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe evidence-based initiatives for improving the quality of care of mental health patients in the emergency department. Specifically, the use of telepsychiatry and reducing provider biases will be presented. MDPI 2015-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4939572/ /pubmed/27417792 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare3030726 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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