‘Inappropriate’ attenders to the
Adult Emergency Department
– A Critical Review

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‘Inappropriate’ attenders to the Adult Emergency Department – A Critical Review

Background: The Department of Health (DoH) emphasise the increased attendance rates to the Emergency Department (ED) over the last decade from 14,044,018 in 2001- 2 (DoH, 2002) up to 21,342,543 in 2010-11 (DoH, 2010-11). Ainsworth (2008) identified that annually up to 14 million attenders could have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lloyd-Jones, Angharad
Format:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26944/

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