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Bronchiolitis: Treatment and management in an urgent out of hours care setting

, 2020
Bronchiolitis is an acute inflammation of the bronchioles that predominately affects children but is most common in the first 12 months of life. Viral bronchiolitis is the principal cause of admission in England and Wales, with numbers exceeding 30 000 ...
Mortimore, Gerri, Dexter, Justine
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Use of the out-of-hours emergency dental service at two south-east London hospitals

BMC Oral Health, 2009
Background Prior to the introduction of the 2006 NHS dental contract in England and Wales, general dental practitioners (GDPs) were responsible for the provision of out-of-hours (OOH) emergency dental services (EDS); however there was great national ...
Wright Desmond, Jones Kate, Austin Rupert, Donaldson Nora, Gallagher Jennifer E   +4 more
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Patient safety culture in Italian out-of-hours primary care service: a national cross-sectional survey study

BJGP Open, 2020
Background: Out-of-hours (OOH) services in Italy provide >10 million consultations every year. To the authors' knowledge, no data on patient safety culture (PSC) have been reported. Aim: To assess PSC in the Italian OOH setting.
Jacopo Demurtas, Pierpaolo Marchetti, Alberto Vaona, Nicola Veronese, Stefano Celotto, Ellen Catharina Deilkås, Dag Hofoss, Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik   +7 more
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Outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection repair: Daytime versus nighttimeCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2021
Objective: We sought to report our experience of repairing acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) over 21 years during in-hours versus out-of-hours before and after the establishment of specialized aortic service and rota.
Amer Harky, MSc, MRCS, Sabrina Mason, MBChB, Ahmed Othman, FRCS C-Th, Matthew Shaw, PhD, Omar Nawaytou, FRCS C-Th, Deborah Harrington, FRCS C-Th, Manoj Kuduvalli, FRCS C-Th, Mark Field, DPhil (Oxon), FRCS C-Th   +7 more
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The recognition and management of sepsis in urgent care out of hours setting [PDF]

, 2020
As the majority of sepsis cases occur in the community, Justine Dexter and Gerri Mortimore provide an overview of the assessment, diagnosis and management of the condition for those working in out of hours settings.
Mortimore, Gerri
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A qualitative study of employees’ opinions on establishing a generic call-centre

BMC Family Practice, 2017
Background To investigate opinions among employees at an Out-of-Hours general practitioner (OOH-GP) service and a safety alarm service about the establishment of a generic call-centre.
Hilde Carin Storhaug, Sara Bjune Mead, Aslak Steinsbekk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protocol for a mixed methods exploratory investigation into the role and contribution of the healthcare assistant in out-of-hours palliative care

BMC Nursing, 2021
Background Most people spend their last year of life at home, with many wishing to die there, but patients may need access to care after hours. Out-of-hours palliative care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams including Health Care Assistants (HCA ...
Felicity Hasson, Sonja McIlfatrick, Sheila Payne, Paul Slater, Dori-Anne Finlay, Tracey McConnell, Anne Fee   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of non-specific diagnostic codes in out-of-hours services [PDF]

Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2020
Primary care doctors put diagnostic codes on all reimbursement cards. The objective of this study was to map out the use of non-specific diagnostic codes that can undermine the validity of statistics and disease surveillance.The material consists of data from all electronic reimbursement cards from out-of-hours services in the period 2008-2019.
Steinar Hunskår, Hogne Sandvik
openaire   +2 more sources

Delayed prescribing of antibiotics for self-limiting respiratory tract infections in an urgent care out of hours setting [PDF]

, 2020
Long-term overuse of antibiotics and inappropriate prescribing has led to widespread development of antimicrobial resistance. The Department of Health and Social Care recently published a five-year national action plan to reduce antimicrobial resistance,
Holroyd, Justine, Mortimore, Gerri
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Contact characteristics and factors associated with the degree of urgency among older people in emergency primary health care: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background As the proportion of older people increases, so will the consumption of health services. The aim of this study was to describe the contact characteristics among older people and to identify factors associated with the degree of urgency at the ...
Lisa Marie Haraldseide, Linn Solveig Sortland, Steinar Hunskaar, Tone Morken   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source