To Admit or Not to Admit to the Emergency Department: The Disposition Question at a Tertiary Teaching and Referral Hospital.
Khalid AlahmarySarah KadasahAbdulrahman AlsulamiAli M AlshehriMajid AlsalamahOmar B Da'arPublished in: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Having proper triage and timely stopgap review measures in the admission process can help new patients to locations that best support their needs and improve the quality and efficiency of the facility. The findings may be a sentinel indicator that informs overuse or inappropriate use of EDs for non-emergency care, which is a concern in the Saudi Arabian publicly funded health system.