Ambulance offload performance, patient characteristics and disposition for patients offloaded to different areas of the emergency department
Patients arriving by ambulance requiring an acute care bed were likely to be elderly and frail, and suffered substantial ambulance offload delays. Delays to ambulance offload for these patients is likely driven by acute care bed availability and access block.
Authors
- James L Mallows (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-3648)
- Mark Salter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-0078)
- M Chapman
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Nepean Hospital (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Emergency Medicine Australasia
- Published
- 2024-10-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14517
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.38
Funders
- University of Sydney