Admission Decision-Making in Hospital Emergency Departments: The Role of the Accompanying Person

• Main Authors: Susanna Rance (Author), Debra Westlake (Author), Heather Brant (Author), Ingrid Holme (Author), Ruth Endacott (Author), Jonathan Pinkney (Author), Richard Byng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In resource-stretched emergency departments, people accompanying patients play key roles in patients' care. This article presents analysis of the ways health professionals and accompanying persons talked about admission decisions and caring roles. The authors used an ethnographic case study des...