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What is the impact of a pre-hospital geriatrician led telephone ‘Silver Triage’ for older people living with frailty?
PurposeMost older people are conveyed to hospital via ambulance, therefore presenting a focus to reduce hospitalisation. North Central London has...
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Opportunities to improve the quality of inpatient consultation: one hospital’s investigation but an age old struggle
Inpatient consultation is widely used by hospital physician teams to access specialized expertise and procedures. However, the quality of the...
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Effect of nurse-led telephone follow-up on postoperative symptoms and analgesics consumption after benign hysterectomy: a randomized, single-blinded, four-arm, controlled multicenter trial
PurposeThe study aimed to determine if planned telephone follow-up, especially when adding structured, oriented coaching, reduces the intensity of...
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Contextual barriers and enablers to establishing an addiction-focused consultation team for hospitalized adults with opioid use disorder
BackgroundHospitalization presents an opportunity to begin people with opioid use disorder (OUD) on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and...
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Factors associated with undertriage in patients classified by the need to visit a hospital by telephone triage: a retrospective cohort study
BackgroundPrehospital telephone triage stratifies patients into five categories, “need immediate hospital visit by ambulance,” “need to visit a...
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Implementation of podiatry telephone appointments for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
BackgroundFoot health problems are common in the general population, and particularly so in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders...
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Advising and limiting medical treatment during phone consultation: a prospective multicentre study in HEMS settings
BackgroundWe investigated paramedic-initiated consultation calls and advice given via telephone by Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS)...
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The feasibility and impact of implementing a computer-guided consultation to target health inequality in Asthma
Greater Manchester has a greater prevalence and worse asthma outcomes than the national average. This study aims to evaluate a digital approach to...
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What are the most common controversial clinical issues in fertility preservation? A content analysis of a collaborative professional online consultation group
Research questionClinicians involved in fertility preservation (FP) are often required to make prompt and consequential decisions despite the absence...
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Infection and the evaluation of biomarkers in obstetrics and gynecology patients with infectious disease: a retrospective observational study from clinical pharmacists’ consultation experience
BackgroundThe use of empirical anti-infective medication calls for the identification of common pathogens and accurate infectious biomarkers....
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Use of alternative consultation forms in Danish general practice in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic – a qualitative study
BackgroundAttempts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic have led to radical reorganisations of health care systems worldwide. General practitioners (GPs)...
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International urogynecological consultation chapter 4.1: definition of outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse surgery
Introduction and hypothesisThis manuscript of Chapter 4 of the International Urogynecological Consultation (IUC) on Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)...
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Patient safety when receiving telephone advice in primary care – a Swedish qualitative interview study
BackgroundA lack of patient safety is a significant global public health challenge and is one of the leading causes of death and disability,...
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Concordance between 8-1-1 HealthLink BC Emergency iDoctor-in-assistance (HEiDi) virtual physician advice and subsequent health service utilization for callers to a nurse-managed provincial health information telephone service
BackgroundBritish Columbia 8–1-1 callers who are advised by a nurse to seek urgent medical care can be referred to virtual physicians (VPs) for...
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Examining GP online consultation in a primary care setting in east midlands, UK
BackgroundIncreasing pressure threatens to overwhelm primary care services, affecting the quality of care and their role as gatekeepers to...
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An eConsultant versus a hospital-based outpatient consultation for general (internal) medicine: a costing analysis
BackgroundThe eConsultant model of care is an outpatient substitution approach which has been evaluated and implemented extensively internationally....
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The effect of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on consultation numbers, consultation reasons and performed services in primary care: results of a longitudinal observational study
ObjectivesThe aims of our study were to describe the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on primary care in Germany regarding the number of...
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Women with breast cancer’s perceptions of nurse-led telephone-based motivational interviewing consultations to enhance adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy: a qualitative study
BackgroundDaily adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) for 5 or 10 years is the standard of care for women diagnosed with non-metastatic hormone...
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Feasibility of a telephone-delivered educational intervention for knowledge transfer of COVID-19-related information to older adults in Hong Kong: a pre–post-pilot study
BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, educational interventions have become necessary to prevent the spread of health-related misinformation among...