Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital Emergency Department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the Elders Risk Assessment Index

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Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital Emergency Department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the Elders Risk Assessment Index

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BACKGROUND Emergency nursing is a specialty concerned with the care of patients across the lifespan. Research has shown sixty per cent of presentations to the Emergency Department (ED) are not emergency presentations; they are classed as semi or non-urgent and are discharged home. Research also shows that ED use among elderly patients is everincreasing and the elderly population is at increased risk of return visits to ED. Effective discharge planning from the ED to home assists patients who ...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2013

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Hegarty, Carolyn

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6462

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New Zealand / emergency departments (EDs) / discharge planning / older people / Māori older people / risk assessment / screening tools / Elders Risk Assessment (ERA) Index / referrals / multidisciplinary teams / Health sciences / Nursing / Acute care / Tāngata / Whānau / Kaumātua / Hauora

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