Air ambulance retrievals of patients with suspected appendicitis and acute abdominal pain: The patients ’ journeys, referral pathways and appendectomy outcomes using linked data in Central Queensland, Australia
Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdominal pain presentations to the ED and common air ambulance transfer. Aims: describe how linked data can be used to explore patients ’ journeys, referral pathways and request-to-activation responsiveness of patients’ appendectomy outcomes (minor vs major complexity).
Source: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal - Category: Nursing Authors: Kristin H. Edwards, Mark T. Edwards, Richard C. Franklin, Sankalp Khanna, Petra M. Kuhnert, Rhondda Jones Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research
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