General Practitioners and Emergency Departments (GPED)

Conditions

Health services and delivery research Not Applicable Health services and delivery research

Jonathan Benger, Heather Brant, Arabella Scantlebury, Helen Anderson, Helen Baxter et al. (21 authors)

Health and Social Care Delivery Research2022-10-015 citations

10.3310/hepb9808

Factors influencing streaming to General Practitioners in emergency departments: A qualitative study.

Anderson H, Scantlebury A, Leggett H, Brant H, Salisbury C, Benger J, Adamson J.

2021-05-214 citations

10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.103980

Potential impacts of general practitioners working in or alongside emergency departments in England: initial qualitative findings from a national mixed-methods evaluation

Arabella Scantlebury, Heather Brant, Helen Anderson, Heather Leggett, Chris Salisbury et al. (9 authors)

BMJ Open2021-05-016 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045453

General practitioners and emergency departments (GPED)—efficient models of care: a mixed-methods study protocol

Katherine Morton, Sarah Voss, Joy Adamson, Helen Baxter, Karen Bloor et al. (18 authors)

BMJ Open2018-10-0114 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024012

Interventions

This is a mixed-methods study, comprising three work packages: Work Package A: Mapping, Taxonomy and Interviews This work package maps, describes and classifies current models of GPED in all EDs in

before GPED implementation, and 12 months later.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Adult patients presenting at ED 2. Carers of patients presenting at ED 3. Staff working in ED

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Work Package C (Qualitative) 1. Patients aged under 18 years 2. Critically ill patients. (We will be led by NHS staff who will identify patients not appropriate for inclusion in study) 3. Non-English speakers 4. Patients who lack capacity (e.g. due to cognitive impairment)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The number of ED attendances measured before and after GPED implementation.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The following are assessed using routinely collected HES data: 1. 4 hour performance 2. Unplanned ED re-attendance within 7 days 3. Mortality within 28 days after attendance 4. Emergency hospital admission 5. Zero day admission (subject to an examination of coding behaviour by hospital Trusts)	—

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed