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Do formal controls always achieve control? The case of triage in accident and emergency departments
S Read1, J Broadbent, S George
1University of Sheffield Medical School.
Abstract:
Triage is the term used to describe the formal process of assigning urgency categories to patients arriving in a hospital accident and emergency department. This paper uses insights from literature on management control, medical sociology and nursing to illuminate the results of a research study comparing formal triage with an informal prioritisation process carried out by nurses. Topics discussed include whether triage is a bureaucratic process, whether it allows nurses' intuition to be expressed, whether it masks the urgency of the condition of the small number of seriously injured or ill patients, and whether responsibility for decisions on urgency should be separated from responsibility to act on those decisions. It is concluded that managers must consider these questions in the light of arrangements in their own hospital; departmental layout as well as the nursing staff's experience and commitment need to be taken into account.
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