Administrative assessment in emergency medicine: a tool of impact

Abstract

Background The Department of emergency medicine was established one year ago. One of our main goals is to ensure correct initial treatment, stabilisation and referral to the correct speciality, of all patients admitted to the hospital. In optimising the process of triage and referral, all young doctors have to consult a coordinating doctor (i.e. a more experienced doctor) before initialising treatment, deciding on a diagnosis and referring to another speciality. This coordinating function is essential in the treatment of the patients and the patient flow in the emergency department. In order to improve the two coordinating doctors’ (i.e. the authors) referral skills, a study monitoring the clinical outcome of all patients treated in a certain period was performed.