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Inappropriate attendance at accident and emergency departments: a literature review
Author(s) -
Liggins Kim
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18071141.x
Subject(s) - attendance , accident and emergency , accident (philosophy) , medline , medical emergency , medicine , psychology , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
This literature review was written as part of a pilot study into staff perceptions of inappropriate attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments The pilot study was earned out m the final year of the BSc Nursing Studies course at Birmingham Polytechnic The literature under review looks at various aspects of inappropriate attendance at A&E, including what actually constitutes inappropriate attendance, who is responsible for misuse of A&E and why A&E is so often abused Suggestions are offered that the role of A&E is more diverse than simply a receiving station for sudden injury or illness and that there are quite pertinent reasons why people choose to attend A&E rather than their own GFs surgery The review covers quite a span of years, the oldest piece of literature under review dating back to 1849 Some 143 years show that indeed this particular problem is not necessarily a modern one but one that has its origins in another century