Article Text
Review
Clinical decision units in the emergency department: old concepts, new paradigms, and refined gate keeping
Abstract
This review looks at the background of clinical decision units/observation units and their role in the management of patients in the emergency department.
- clinical decision units
- clinical risk
- observation units
- ED, emergency department
- OU, observation unit
- CDU, clinical decision unit
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Footnotes
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Funding: none.
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Conflicts of interest: TBH is the Clinical Lead of the Leeds CDU Group and has been involved in developing the CDU concept in Leeds since September 2000