Unscheduled admissions to hospital are usually coordinated by the acute assessment unit
(AAU), often led in rotation by physicians from range of specialties, together with specialists …

Lynn Lambert within the AMU. Readmission rates were not affected by the changes to the
admission process. Comparison of mortality data between the pre-and the posttriage years …

Modern hospitals are facing several challenges and, over the last decade in particular, many
of these institutions have become dysfunctional. Paradoxically as medicine has become …

Background: The last 30 years have seen considerable growth in the scope of emergency
medicine and the size, scale and expectations of emergency departments (EDs) in the USA …

Simon Baudouin and Timothy Evans round). Moreover, the presence of highly experienced
junior medical and anaesthetic staff has in the past reduced the exposure of consultant …

Medical Royal Colleges, Acute medicine: the physician's role6, recognised the value of
acute care physicians but at that time did not feel it appropriate to create a new specialty with …

The demographics are clear; the UK, like most of the 'western'world, is an ageing society.
Since the 1930s in England alone, the number of people aged over 65 has more than …

Care of older people in acute care hospitals: do we know how? Page 1 I/I.WPOINT Care of
older people in acute care hospitals: do we know how? Ian A Scott We need to rethink and …

The health care system faces a difficult challenge as a result of the demographic evolution.
The acute hospital is especially challenged by the steady increase of the elderly population …

Leaders historically are clearly recognisable from afar–dominating and towering above their
fellows, even if of diminutive (Bonopartean) dimensions. In medicine, leaders of that stature …