Critical pathways for post-emergency outpatient diagnosis and treatment: Tools to improve the value of emergency care

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Schuur, Jeremiah D ^a,b   Baugh, Christopher W ^a,b   Hess, Erik P ^c   Hilton, Joshua A ^d   Pines, Jesse M ^e   Asplin, Brent R ^c,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Fairview Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG EMBOLISM; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT CRITICAL PATHWAY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79959317539     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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