Effectiveness of acute medical units in hospitals: a systematic review

I Scott, L Vaughan, D Bell - … Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Purpose To assess the effectiveness of acute medical units (AMUs) in hospitals. Data
sources (i) Controlled and observational studies in peer-reviewed journals retrieved from …

Recurring outbreaks of an infection apparently targeting immune function, and consequent unprecedented growth in medical admission and costs in the United …

R Jones - British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Background: The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has been beset by
unprecedented growth in emergency admissions to the hospital which are specifically …

Impact of an acute medical admission unit on length of hospital stay, and emergency department 'wait times'

ED Moloney, D Smith, K Bennett, D O'riordan, B Silke - Qjm, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background: While many UK hospitals have introduced an acute medical admissions unit
(AMAU) to facilitate an efficient emergency admission process and reduce length of hospital …

[PDF][PDF] Correlation of physician seniority with increased emergency department efficiency during a resident doctors' strike

M Harvey, M Al Shaar, G Cave, M Wallace… - The New Zealand …, 2008 - Citeseer
Aim Physician seniority has increasingly been shown to correlate with improved clinical
outcomes. However few studies examine the relationship between treating doctor …

Acute medical units: review of evidence

D Byrne, B Silke - European journal of internal medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Acute medicine is best defined as that part of hospital medicine concerned with the
immediate and early specialist management of adult patients suffering from a wide range of …

[HTML][HTML] What is the effect of a consultant presence in an acute medical unit?

GBS McNeill, DH Brahmbhatt, AT Prevost… - Clinical …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A cornerstone of the development of acute medicine has been the principle of consultant
presence within the acute medical unit (AMU). There is the hypothesis that consultant …

Impact of specialist care on clinical outcomes for medical emergencies

S Moore, I Gemmell, S Almond, I Buchan… - Clinical …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
General hospitals have commonly involved a wide range of medical specialists in the care of
unselected medical emergency admissions. In 1999, the Royal Liverpool University …

Emergency department census of patients awaiting admission following reorganisation of an admissions process

ED Moloney, K Bennett, D O'riordan… - Emergency Medicine …, 2006 - emj.bmj.com
Objectives: To determine the impact of reorganisation of an acute admissions process on
numbers of people in the emergency department (ED) awaiting admission to a hospital bed …

The New Zealand national junior doctors' strike: implications for the provision of acute hospital medical services

G Robinson, K McCann, P Freeman, R Beasley - Clinical medicine, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The New Zealand junior doctors' strike provided an opportunity to consider
strategies that might be employed to overcome the international shortage of junior doctors …

[PDF][PDF] A medical admission unit reduces duration of hospital stay and number of readmissions

JC Vork, M Brabrand, L Folkestad, KK Thomsen… - Dan Med …, 2011 - content.ugeskriftet.dk
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Political initiatives promoting a more efficient emergency
admission process have triggered a reorganisation of the Danish health system with a view …