1998
DOI: 10.1071/ah980127
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An emergency department tackles bed management and home-based care

Abstract: Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department played a vital role in the Post Acute Treatment in the Home Program (PATH) of West Moreton District Health Service. PATH used two strategies to reduce the district reliance on acute hospital beds: a short-stay unit for rapid assessment, treatment and early discharge of patients with simple conditions; and a hospital-in-the-home program utilising community health services to treat acute conditions. The program enhanced existing services to create a new treatment stream for … Show more

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“…It enables patients to remain in the workforce or at school and with familiar people in familiar environments. 17 Traditionally, HITH has not been physically part of the ED and, at the time of the study, only one service had physically merged with an ED. However, the Patient Management Task Force, in recommending better links between the two facilities, 2 may stimulate future mergers.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It enables patients to remain in the workforce or at school and with familiar people in familiar environments. 17 Traditionally, HITH has not been physically part of the ED and, at the time of the study, only one service had physically merged with an ED. However, the Patient Management Task Force, in recommending better links between the two facilities, 2 may stimulate future mergers.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Those who work in EDs are under particular pressure to guard the precious resources available to the system. Brierley and King suggested that EDs act as gatekeepers to acute hospital services and, as such, can play a strategic role in bed management policies and home‐based care 28 . Contradictions abound when hospitals, as the key providers of acute health care, send patients home into the care of relatives and visiting nurses in order to minimize their costs 25 .…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Brierley and King suggested that EDs act as gatekeepers to acute hospital services and, as such, can play a strategic role in bed management policies and home-based care. 28 Contradictions abound when hospitals, as the key providers of acute health care, send patients home into the care of relatives and visiting nurses in order to minimize their costs. 25 Such bed management policies are argued in the best interests of the patient but are also in the best interests of fiscal constraint in escalating hospital budgets.…”
Section: Political and Managerial Influences On Nursing Carementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Al igual que en las UEC gestionadas directamente desde los SUH, se ha podido identificar ciertos beneficios ausentes en la HAD de visión más clásica, a la vez de una gestión más eficiente del recurso 28 .…”
Section: Hospitalización a Domiciliounclassified