Over the past few years we’ve seen a year on year increase in patient attendances to ED and an increasing number of challenges, especially at winter, which is already upon. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has produced some excellent videos on the challenges faced by EDs.
Month: July 2017
Abstraction is the tedious process of obtaining data from medical records. We need key information about presenting complaints, observations, streaming descisions and timings of investigations, treatments to compare with SortED® records. Inspection of the UCC patient’s records showed inconsistent use of fields so that automated abstraction was not likely to produce accurate results.