PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mary Armitage
AU  - Tanzeem Raza
TI  - A consultant physician in acute medicine: The Bournemouth Model for managing increasing numbers of medical emergency admissions
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-4-331
DP  - 2002 Jul 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 331--333
VI  - 2
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/4/331.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/4/331.full
SO  - Clin Med2002 Jul 01; 2
AB  - Consultant-led medical admission units have been developed as one method of managing the increasing number of acute medical emergencies. The need to document such innovations and to evaluate and analyse the role of an acute care physician in meeting the problems of acute care has been emphasised. We therefore report our experience of an acute admissions unit led by a consultant physician in acute medicine in a district general hospital.