Emergency nurse practitioner care and emergency department patient flow: case-control study Considine, Julie, Martin, Roslyn, Smit, DeVilliers, Winter, Craig and Jenkins, Jane 2006, Emergency nurse practitioner care and emergency department patient flow: case-control study, Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 385-390, doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00870.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Emergency nurse practitioner care and emergency department patient flow: case-control study Author(s) Considine, Julie orcid.org/0000-0003-3801-2456 Martin, Roslyn Smit, DeVilliers Winter, Craig Jenkins, Jane Journal name Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA Volume number 18 Issue number 4 Start page 385 End page 390 Publisher Blackwell Publishing Asia Place of publication Carlton South, Vic Publication date 2006-08 ISSN 1742-6731 1742-6723 Keyword(s) emergency nursing length of stay nurse practitioner research Summary Objective: The present study aimed to compare ED waiting times (for medical assessment and treatment), treatment times and length of stay (LOS) for patients managed by an emergency nurse practitioner candidate (ENPC) with patients managed via traditional ED care. Methods: A case–control design was used. Patients were selected using the three most common ED discharge diagnoses for ENPC managed patients: hand/wrist wounds, hand/wrist fractures and removal of plaster of Paris. The ENPC group (n = 102) consisted of patients managed by the ENPC who had ED discharge diagnoses as mentioned above. The control group (n = 623) consisted of patients with the same ED discharge diagnoses who were managed via traditional ED care. Results: There were no significant differences in median waiting times, treatment times and ED LOS between ENPC managed patients and patients managed via traditional ED processes. There appeared to be some variability between diagnostic subgroups in terms of treatment times and ED LOS. Conclusion: Patient flow outcomes for ENPC managed patients are comparable with those of patients managed via usual ED processes. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00870.x Field of Research 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care) HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004234 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 22 Jan 2009, 13:02:22 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 15:03:23 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:15:41 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 07:41:37 EST Fri, 10 Oct 2014, 08:17:32 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 39 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1039 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:15:43 EST