Emergency department interventions for persons with dementia presenting with ambulatory care-sensitive conditions: a scoping review protocol.
The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map, within existing literature, the characteristics of emergency department/urgent care interventions, strategies or contextual factors, implemented to reduce unnecessary hospitalization of people with dementia (PWD) presenting at the emergency department/urgent care with ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSC).More specifically, the review questions are.
1College of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Canada 3Institute for Nursing Scholarship, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Regina, Canada 4Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Beverley A
BA
Temple
Preetha
P
Krishnan
Beverly
B
O'Connell
Lyle G
LG
Grant
Lisa
L
Demczuk
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D000098584:Scoping Reviews as Topic