Primary care in accident and emergency departments

doi:10.1136/bmj.311.7017.1438

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Jane Fothergill,
R Touquet,
P Ward

Consultant Consultant Registrar Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London W2 1NY

Outcomes of study cast doubt on sensitivity of triage decisions and triage criteria

EDITOR,--Jeremy Dale and colleagues highlight the difficult and unresolved problem of appropriate triage for patients attending accident and emergency departments with “primary care” type problems.1 We have had a primary care service in our accident and emergency department since February 1993, which we recently analysed.2

At St Mary's …