The aim of our study was to describe the impact of emergency care centralisation on
unscheduled admissions with a primary discharge diagnosis of acute heart failure (HF). We …

Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of Emergency Department (ED) visits
worldwide, both as the main medical problem and as a key comorbidity. For patients affected …

Study objectives Hospital admission rates for patients with heart failure (HF) presenting for
emergency department (ED) care vary, and the implications of direct discharge home from …

Short stay unit (SSU) is an alternative to conventional hospitalization in patients with acute
heart failure (AHF), but the prognosis is not known compared to direct discharge from the …

Objectives To describe hospital inpatient, emergency department (ED) and outpatient
department (OPD) activity for patients in the year following their first emergency admission …

Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of physician continuity for
patients with heart failure (HF) treated and released from the emergency department (ED) …

Objective Ideally, discharges from the emergency department (ED) should be as safe as
discharges after hospitalization. We have ascertained this hypothesis in patients with acute …

Objective Evidence favours centralisation of emergency care for specific conditions, but it
remains unclear whether broader implementation improves outcomes and efficiency …

Background—Heart failure is a common Emergency Department (ED) presentation but
whether ED volume influences patient outcomes is unknown. Methods and Results …

Objective Experts recommended that direct discharge without hospitalization (DDWH) for
emergency departments (EDs) able to observe acute heart failure (AHF) patients should be> …