Emergency department use by young adults with chronic illness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

CA Celona, K Jackman, A Smaldone - Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction There was a significant decrease in emergency department encounters during
the COVID-19 pandemic. Our large urban emergency department observed decreased …

Health professionals' experience of implementing and delivering a 'Community Care'programme in metropolitan Melbourne: a qualitative reflexive thematic analysis

B Shannon, H Shannon, KA Bowles, C Williams… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To explore the experiences of health professionals involved in delivering a
multidisciplinary Community Care programme that provides a transitional care coordination …

Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data

C Burton, T Stone, P Oliver, JM Dickson… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - emj.bmj.com
Objective Frequent attendance at the ED is a worldwide problem. We hypothesised that
frequent attendance could be understood as a feature of a complex system comprising …

[HTML][HTML] Machine Learning–Based Prediction for High Health Care Utilizers by Using a Multi-Institutional Diabetes Registry: Model Training and Evaluation

JK Tan, L Quan, NNM Salim, JH Tan, SY Goh… - JMIR AI, 2024 - ai.jmir.org
Background: The cost of health care in many countries is increasing rapidly. There is a
growing interest in using machine learning for predicting high health care utilizers for …

Reducing patients' rate of frequent attendance through a training intervention for physicians

A Ramos, R Pujol, C Palma - BMC Medical Education, 2024 - Springer
Background Frequent attendance is a common issue for primary care health centres. The
phenomenon affects the quality of care, increases doctors' workloads and can lead to …

Utilising a nurse navigator model of care to improve prisoner health care and reduce prisoner presentations to a tertiary emergency department

S Collett, A Wong, K Taurima, G Livesay, A Dehn… - Australasian Emergency …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Prisoners are a vulnerable population requiring complex care interventions in
challenging environments, particularly around provision of emergency care. The aim of this …

'I've got to go in there with my armour on': Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Adults Who Frequently Attend Emergency Departments

V Binnie, M Jessup, R Le Brocque… - … Journal of Mental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent presentations to emergency departments contribute to increased service demands
and healthcare costs. Literature suggests these adult presentations may be influenced by …

Exploring the reliability and profile of frequent mental health presentations using different methods: An observational study using statewide ambulance data over a 4 …

A Hew, JT Young, B Rowland, D Scott… - Australian & New …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: A disproportionate number of mental health presentations to emergency
services are made by frequent presenters. No current consensus definition of a frequent …

Does a Community Care programme reach a high health need population and high users of acute care hospital services in Melbourne, Australia? An observational …

B Shannon, KA Bowles, C Williams, T Ravipati… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The Community Care programme is an initiative aimed at reducing
hospitalisations and emergency department (ED) presentations among patients with …

Improving care for high impact users of hospital emergency departments: a mixed-method evaluation of a regional quality improvement programme 'Supporting High …

C Sillero-Rejon, M Kirbyshire, R Thorpe, G Myring… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Background The need to better manage frequent attenders or high-impact users (HIUs) in
hospital emergency departments (EDs) is widely recognised. These patients often have …