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A research team at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has been awarded a 2018 Research Prize by the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for their poster 'Recognising the dying patient, when less could be more: a diagnostic framework for shared decision-making at the end of life'.
My patient’s emergency procedure was Interventional Radiology-related or an Endoscopic Interventions (e.g. stent insertion, ERCP), not surgery – are they eligible?
Answer Yes, all emergency abdominal procedures are eligible – of course, the patient has to clinically deteriorate to be included.
How do I define a scan as ‘emergency’ or ‘unplanned’?
Answer All scans REQUESTED outside of the normal working hours of 9am to 5pm Monday-Friday are counted as unplanned. All scans where the RICHER tool (a communication tool developed by RESPOND) had to be used in the request also count as unplanned.