Table 1 Emergency Admissions in England
From: What aspects of primary care predict emergency admission rates? A cross sectional study
In England, patients may be admitted to hospital as emergencies if, when they fall acutely ill or are injured: | |
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1 they or their carers take them to the emergency department of a hospital; | |
2 or they are taken to an emergency department by an ambulance; | |
3 or a general practitioner (GP; including out of-hours services) arranges emergency admission via an emergency department or directly to a hospital ward; | |
4 or by other routes, for example, through an outpatient department if a patient attends a clinic when seriously ill. |