An environmental scan of medical assessment units in Canada

Title: An environmental scan of medical assessment units in Canada
Creator: Yergens, Dean; Fradgley, Elizabeth; Aiyar, Ranjani; Lang, Eddy; Rowe, Brian H.; Ghali, William A.
Relation: Healthcare Quarterly Vol. 17, Issue 4, p. 28-33
Relation: http://www.longwoods.com/content/24114
Publisher: Longwoods Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: Many initiatives have been proposed to improve emergency department (ED) overcrowding. One such strategy has been to implement medical assessment units (MAUs). This study reports on an environmental scan of MAU distribution and characteristics across Canada. A telephone survey was administered to administrative and clinical leaders at acute-care hospitals in Canada. The survey was designed in two sections: (1) description of hospital and ED characteristics; and (2) description of any existing MAU-like units associated with the hospital's ED structure and processes. Our survey reveals that MAU-like initiatives exist in several Canadian hospitals but are heterogeneous in structure and functionality.
Subject: medical assessment units; Canada; emergency departments; telephone survey
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1333309
Identifier: uon:27054
Identifier: ISSN:1710-2774
Language: eng
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