Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments.

CONCLUSIONS: We assessed the evidence from the four included studies as of very low-certainty overall, as the results are inconsistent and safety has not been examined. The evidence is insufficient to draw conclusions for practice or policy regarding the effectiveness and safety of care provided to non-urgent patients by GPs and NPs versus EPs in the ED to mitigate problems of overcrowding, wait times, and patient flow.
PMID: 29438575 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - February 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gonçalves-Bradley D, Khangura JK, Flodgren G, Perera R, Rowe BH, Shepperd S Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research