Open AccessThe outcome of right siting patient to primary care provider by asthma nurses
Author(s) -
Tham Lai Mei,
Prabhakaran Lathy,
Lim Yick Hou,
Sun Bing,
Neo Lay Ping,
Abdul Rashid Sri Siti Fatimah
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical and translational allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.979
H-Index - 37
ISSN - 2045-7022
DOI - 10.1186/2045-7022-5-s2-p14
Subject(s) - medicine , polyclinic , attendance , emergency department , asthma , family medicine , emergency medicine , nursing , economics , economic growth
Background Right-sitting chronic asthma care from acute hospitals to the Primary Care Provider (PCP) is an initiative undertaken at an institution in Singapore. Follow up care delivered by PCP like polyclinics (OPS) or general practitioners (GP) will aid to free hospital and Emergency Department (ED) to provide more acute and complex specialized care. This study was to evaluate the outcome after rightsitingasthma patient from three different clinical setting (ED, In-patient and out-patient) in a tertiary institution to PCP.