Publications by authors named "Jo Molloy"
Article Synopsis
- Nurse practitioner-led Medical Emergency Team (MET) calls are associated with better clinical outcomes compared to those led by ICU registrars, but their cost effectiveness is less understood.
- A retrospective study analyzed the costs of MET calls over nearly two years, revealing that nurse practitioner-led calls were cheaper, with lower average costs per call than ICU registrar-led calls.
- A healthcare service performing over 101 MET calls that lead to ICU admissions annually could benefit financially by implementing a 24-hour nurse practitioner-led MET call system.
Objective: Medical emergency teams (MET) are mostly led by physicians. Some hospitals are currently using nurse practitioners (NP) to lead MET calls. These are no studies comparing clinical outcomes between these two care models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQ fever is a zoonotic disease that is most commonly associated with outbreaks in slaughterhouses. We describe an outbreak of 4 cases occurring in a factory that processes ovine fetal products for the cosmetics industry. It is important that industries typically not associated with risk of Q fever are made aware of potential health risks that workers might be exposed to so further outbreaks might be prevented.
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