However, apart from these expedients, and patient loyalty to their physician, there were no formal mechanisms to guarantee longitudinal and vertical continuity of care [ 5].
There is evidence to support expedient care for patients following traumatic injury; however, no study has examined the relationship between outcomes in patients transported to different types of hospital facilities and the amount of bleeding.
The clinicians facing this web of complexity determined that referral to the emergency department, and subsequent admission to hospital, was the most expedient solution to address the patient's health problems.
Septic shock is a major life-threatening condition in critically ill patients and it is well known that early recognition of septic shock and expedient initiation of appropriate treatment improves patient outcome.
Various other designs have been tried since, but all were seen as temporary expedients intended to tide a patient over until the real thing became available from a human donor.That may be about to change.
Regardless, the two options are faced on a regular basis, and are underpinned by competing organisational priorities that require providing effective, expedient care to as many patients who need that care, and investing effort to create awareness of hazards and incidents.
This not only improves patient comfort and allows expedient discharge from hospital, but also reduces the risk of developing post-operative chronic pain and may improve surgical outcome.
The vast majority of acute care hospitals in the UK are without on-site neurosurgical and neurointensive care facilities, necessitating expedient assessment of the brain-injured patient.
Since these results were generally surprising and did not appear to be scientifically conclusive, we found it expedient to evaluate another very large patient population that was treated at 6 German university medical centers.
Some pharmacists expressed regret at the expedient manner in which they recruited patients for the study, and proposed different methods of recruitment that allowed them to target specific patients as they presented.
