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| Are adults in need of support and protection being identified in emergency departments? | | Author(s) | Alison Jarvis, Kate Fennell, Annette Cosgrove |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 18, no 1, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 3-13 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Admission [hospitals] ; Accident & emergency depts ; Needs [elderly] ; Elder abuse ; At risk ; Evaluation ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | Frequent attendance at emergency departments (EDs) has been identified in adult protection reviews as a potential warning sign of the escalation of someone's vulnerability. Concern has been expressed about the engagement of the National Health Service (NHS) in adult protection and the small number of NHS adult protection referrals. More specifically ED departments have been identified as an area of high patient throughput where there has been little evidence around how well adult support and protection (ASP) was being delivered. In this study a series of audits were undertaken in three different hospitals across a large Scottish Health Board accessing ED at different times of day on different days of the week to test whether NHS staff working in EDs were identifying adults who met the criteria of an `adult at risk'. The audits identified a total of 11 patients from a total sample of 552 records examined who may have met the criteria to be considered an adult at risk, although further information would have been required to make a fully informed decision. It is essential that NHS Boards proactively support practice in ED settings so staff are able to identify adults at risk of harm under the ASP legislation so that ED staff are responsive to ASP needs. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160205210 A |
| Classmark | LD:QKH: LD6: IK: QNT: CA3: 4C: 9A |
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