Providing better care for patients with complex needs in acute medicine
Crosswaite, A.G.; Dougall, H.; Duguid, I.; Mearns, N.; Jones, M.; Bell, D.
Acute Medicine 8(2): 80-84
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4884 PMID: 21603676 Document Number: 14417
Patients with complex needs are commonly admitted on the acute medical take and comprise a significant proportion of the workload for an acute physician. An innovative multi-professional approach to the assessment of this group of patients has been developed in Edinburgh; this paper summarises the results of a 4 week review of data collected on patients assessed by the multiprofessional team on the Medical Assessment Unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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