Brought in dead cases to a tertiary referral paediatric emergency department in India: a prospective qualitative study.
Kumar PraveenKarthi NallasamyMuralidharan JayashreePraveen KumarPublished in: BMJ paediatrics open (2020)
Social and system-related factors contribute to children presenting to ED in BID state. Streamlining the referral process and linking transport to hospital care could reduce decompensated referrals and thereby decrease child mortality.
Keyphrases
- emergency department
- healthcare
- primary care
- mental health
- heart failure
- adverse drug
- palliative care
- young adults
- cardiovascular events
- quality improvement
- intensive care unit
- risk factors
- case report
- ejection fraction
- cardiovascular disease
- type diabetes
- acute care
- pain management
- coronary artery disease
- hepatitis b virus