Prevention of Low and Non-Urgent Presentations of Children to Emergency Departments: Models of Care Outside Hospitals

Lena Sanci; Meredith Temple-Smith; Phyllis Lau; Ann-Maree Duncan; Susan Webster; Serryn Eagleson; Ian Bishop

Prevention of Low and Non-Urgent Presentations of Children to Emergency Departments: Models of Care Outside Hospitals

Lena Sanci, Meredith Temple-Smith, Phyllis Lau, Ann-Maree Duncan, Susan Webster, Serryn Eagleson, Ian Bishop

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Abstract

The focus of this report is on low-urgency paediatric presentations to hospital emergency departments which could potentially be managed in primary care. The report explores the current available Australian data and evidence on the reasons parents take their children aged 0-9 years with low urgency conditions to emergency, and describes services and models which would need to be in place to reduce rates of such presentaitons.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Parkville, Vic.
Publisher	University of Melbourne
Number of pages	212
Publication status	Published - 2015

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