Publications by authors named "D K Bedford"
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- Blunt chest injuries can lead to serious health issues, and the implementation of the Chest Injury Care Bundle (ChIP) in emergency departments has improved patient care by reducing unnecessary ICU admissions and non-invasive ventilation use.
- A study was conducted to analyze the financial implications of ChIP across various hospital sites, assessing treatment costs for 1,705 patients, with costs expressed in Australian dollars.
- While initial results indicated that ChIP treatment costs were higher than standard care, the significant variability in costs across different locations made the overall findings statistically inconclusive, suggesting the need for further cost analysis.
Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD) represents a serious and growing worldwide economic and healthcare burden. Almost 95% of current AD patients are associated with sAD as opposed to patients presenting with well-characterized genetic mutations that lead to AD predisposition, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients are at risk of deterioration on discharge from an emergency department (ED) to a ward, particularly in the first 72 h. The implementation of a structured emergency nursing framework (HIRAID) in regional New South Wales (NSW), Australia, resulted in a 50% reduction of clinical deterioration related to emergency nursing care. To date the cost implications of this are unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: This study aimed to quantify the health economic treatment costs of clinical deterioration of patients within 72 h of admission via the emergency department.
Methods: This study was conducted between March 2018 and February 2019 in two hospitals in regional New South Wales, Australia. All patients admitted via the emergency department were screened for clinical deterioration (defined as initiation of a medical emergency team call, cardiac arrest or unplanned admission to Intensive Care Unit) within 72 h through the site clinical deterioration databases.