[Development of ground-based physician-staffed emergency missions in the city of Leipzig from 2003 to 2013].

CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that the necessity for the high number of physician-staffed emergency missions should be verified, especially in the context of strained emergency healthcare resources. The basis of an optimized use of resources could be a better inclusion of alternative, especially ambulant, healthcare structures and the implementation of a structured emergency call questionnaire accompanied by a more efficient disposition of the operating resources, not least in view of the economic aspects. Taking the concentrated patient allocation to level 1 hospitals into consideration, there is a need for optimized patient distribution strategies to minimize the overload of individual institutions and thereby improve the general quality of care at the interface between preclinical and clinical emergency medicine.
PMID: 29230501 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Der Anaesthesist - December 11, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Bader K, Bernhard M, Gries A, Kaul M, Schröder R, Ramshorn-Zimmer A Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research