Acute care

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Acute care is a branch of

chronic care, or longer-term care
.

Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of

inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable.[3]
Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency unit for further treatment.

Current issues in acute care

Australia

The 2009 "Final Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals", known as The Garling Report, documented a series of high-profile medical controversies in the New South Wales public hospital system, and issued over one hundred recommendations that stimulated considerable discussion and controversy.[4]

United States

A federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) "requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when a patient presents to an emergency room for attention to an emergency medical condition."[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "News You Can Use: Health Care Glossary". ABC News. October 13, 2006. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Alberta Health Services. Acute care. Accessed 3 August 2011.
  3. ^ Canadian Institute for Health Information. Acute care. Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 3 August 2011.
  4. ^ Garling, Peter. Final Report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals, November 2008. Accessed 3 August 2011.
  5. ^ "EMTALA.COM - Resources and information". www.emtala.com.
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