Background Emergency department crowding is a major global healthcare issue. There is
much debate as to the causes of the phenomenon, leading to difficulties in developing …

Introduction Increasing numbers of hospital emergency department (ED) visits pose a
challenge to health systems in many countries. This paper aims to examine emergency and …

Objective To quantify the association between patient self-management capability measured
using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) and healthcare utilisation across a whole health …

Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) are at higher risk of physical health
conditions compared to the general population, however, the impact of specific underlying …

Background General practices have had difficulty recruiting and retaining enough general
practitioners to keep up with increasing demand for primary health care in recent years …

Social determinants of health encompass the quality of an individual's social and physical
environment and its effect on health outcomes. Disparities in these social and environmental …

This winter has been a story of profound mismatch between illness and NHS resources.
More seriously unwell people needing admission have arrived at the front doors of A&E …

Background Inappropriate visits to emergency departments (EDs) could represent from 20%
to 40% of all visits. Inappropriate use is a burden on healthcare costs and increases the risk …

Emergency departments (ED) in the USA treat 136.9 million cases annually and account for
nearly half of all medical care delivered. Due to high demand and limited resource (such as …

Access to after-hours primary care is problematic in many developed countries, leading
patients to instead visit the emergency department for non-urgent conditions. However …