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Patterns of admissions in an acute medical unit: priorities for service development and education

Author(s) -

Natalie J James,

Rumana Hussain,

Alasdair Moonie,

Donald Richardson,

W. Stephen Waring

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

acute medicine journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1747-4892

pISSN - 1747-4884

DOI - 10.52964/amja.0549

Subject(s) - specialty , unit (ring theory) , medicine , acute medicine , service (business) , curriculum , identification (biology) , acute care , intensive care medicine , family medicine , psychology , political science , business , health care , pedagogy , botany , mathematics education , biology , marketing , law

An Acute Medical Unit has recently been established at York Hospital. The present study sought to characterise the case mix of acutely unwell medical patients to allow identification of priorities for ongoing service development and to assess educational opportunities for trainees in the region. Data were collected for 16001 admission episodes between January 2010 and April 2011 inclusive. These allowed characterisation of the case mix, and identified key priorities where clinical pathway do not yet exist, namely heart failure, urinary tract infection, and acute diarrhoea. Good educational opportunities exist for most aspects of the Acute Medicine curriculum; several weaknesses were identified, and trainees might address these by undertaking a specific period of specialty training in endocrinology and neurology.

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