دورية أكاديمية

Trauma-Related Clinical Practice Variation in Dutch Emergency Departments

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Trauma-Related Clinical Practice Variation in Dutch Emergency Departments
المؤلفون: Elise L. Tierie, Dennis G. Barten, Laura M. Esteve Cuevas, Rebekka Veugelers, Menno I. Gaakeer
المصدر: Healthcare; Volume 11; Issue 5; Pages: 748
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: practice variation, clinical variation, The Netherlands, emergency medicine, benchmark
الوصف: Structural insights in the use of protocols and the extent of practice variation in EDs are lacking. The objective is to determine the extent of practice variation in EDs in The Netherlands, based on specified common practices. We performed a comparative study on Dutch EDs that employed emergency physicians to determine practice variation. Data on practices were collected via a questionnaire. Fifty-two EDs across The Netherlands were included. Thrombosis prophylaxis was prescribed for below-knee plaster immobilization in 27% of EDs. Vitamin C was prescribed in 50% of EDs after a wrist fracture. Splitting of applied casts to the upper or lower limb was performed in one-third of the EDs. Analysis of the cervical spine after trauma was performed by the NEXUS criteria (69%), the Canadian C-spine Rule (17%) or otherwise. The imaging modality for cervical spine trauma in adults was a CT scan (98%). The cast used for scaphoid fractures was divided between the short arm cast (46%) and the navicular cast (54%). Locoregional anaesthesia for femoral fractures was applied in 54% of the EDs. EDs in The Netherlands showed considerable practice variation in treatments among the subjects studied. Further research is warranted to gain a full understanding of the variation in practice in EDs and the potential to improve quality and efficiency.
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اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050748Test
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11050748
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050748Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.97F46247
قاعدة البيانات: BASE