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Lack of existing guidelines for a large group of patients in Sweden: a national survey across the acute surgical care delivery chain
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Health Services Research. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiovascular epidemiology. Univ Adelaide, Sch Nursing, Adelaide, SA, Australia.. (Institutionen för Folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning)
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences, Endocrine Surgery.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences, Education in Nursing.
2017 (English)In: Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, ISSN 1356-1294, E-ISSN 1365-2753, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 89-95Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Rationale, aims and objectivesEvidence-informed healthcare is the fundament for prac-tice, whereby guidelines based on the best available evidence should assist health profes-sionals in managing patients. Patients seeking care for acute abdominal pain form acommon group in acute care settings worldwide, for whom decision-making and timelytreatment are of paramount importance. There is ambiguity about the existence, use andcontent of guidelines for patients with acute abdomen. The objective was to describe andcompare guidelines and management of patients with acute abdomen in different settingsacross the acute care delivery chain in Sweden.MethodA national cross-sectional design was used. Twenty-nine ambulance stations, 17emergency departments and 33 surgical wards covering all six Swedish health regions wereincluded, and 23 guidelines were quality appraised using the validated Appraisal of Guide-lines for Research & Evaluation II tool.ResultsThere is a lack of guidelines in use for the management of this large group of pa-tients between and within different healthcare areas across the acute care delivery chain.The quality appraisal identified that several guidelines were of poor quality, especiallythe in-hospital ones. Further, range orders for analgesics are common in the ambulance ser-vices and the surgical wards, but are seldom present in the emergency departments. Also,education in pain management is more common in the ambulance services. Thesefindingsare noteworthy as, hypothetically, the same patient could be treated in three different waysduring the same care episode.ConclusionsThere is an urgent need to develop high-quality evidence-based clinicalguidelines for this patient group, with the entire care process in focus

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2017. Vol. 23, no 1, p. 89-95
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abdominal pain, acute care delivery chain, ambulance, emergency care, guidelines, surgical care
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304033DOI: 10.1111/jep.12607ISI: 000395024900012PubMedID: 27491471OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-304033DiVA, id: diva2:975201
Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2018-01-10Bibliographically approved

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