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Potential for advice from doctors to reduce the number of patients referred to emergency departments by NHS 111 call handlers: observational study

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Open, November 2015
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Title
Potential for advice from doctors to reduce the number of patients referred to emergency departments by NHS 111 call handlers: observational study
Published in
BMJ Open, November 2015
DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009444
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Authors

Andrew Anderson, Martin Roland

Abstract

To determine the effect of using experienced general practitioners (GPs) to review the advice given by call handlers in NHS 111, a national service giving telephone advice to people seeking medical care. Observational study following the introduction of GPs to review call handlers' decisions which had been made using decision support software. NHS 111 call centre covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. When a call handler using standard NHS 111 decision support software would have advised the caller to attend the hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department, the decision was reviewed by an experienced GP. Percentage of calls where an outcome other than A&E attendance was recommended by the GP. Of 1474 cases reviewed, the GP recommended A&E attendance in 400 cases (27.1%). In the remainder of cases, the GP recommended attendance at a primary care out-of-hours centre or minor injury unit in 665 cases (45.2%) and self-management or some alternative strategy in 409 (27.8%). Fewer callers to NHS 111 would be sent to emergency departments if the decision was reviewed by an experienced GP. Telephone triage services need to consider whether using relatively unskilled call handlers supported by computer software is the most cost-effective way to handle requests for medical care.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Unknown 111 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 13%
Student > Master 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 12%
Student > Postgraduate 10 9%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 31 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 14%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Psychology 3 3%
Other 13 12%
Unknown 35 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2020.
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#878,925
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Open
#1,513
of 25,589 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,569
of 394,406 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Open
#31
of 411 outputs
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