What is it about?
Emergency Departments utilization by outpatients with nonurgent medical conditions increases in Germany as in many countries worldwide. A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews was conducted at Charité Berlin to analyse patients' motifs. Study results indicate an independent function of EDs in outpatient care, visited by patients with due to better time-flexibility, the ability of multidisciplinary care at one visit and higher medical quality of care.
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Why is it important?
The increasing number of patients with non-urgent conditions leads to crowding at EDs, which may impair the health care for emergency patients.
Perspectives
I aim to contribute a German perspective to thebroad international research of ED utilization with low urgency problems. Furthermore, I would like to add knowledge to the German debate about improving the fragmented health System.
Martina H Schmiedhofer
Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin
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This page is a summary of: Inanspruchnahme zentraler Notaufnahmen: Qualitative Erhebung der Motivation von Patientinnen und Patienten mit nichtdringlichem Behandlungsbedarf, Das Gesundheitswesen, April 2016, Thieme Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-100729.
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