Exploration of clinicians’ decision-making regarding transfer of patient care from the emergency department to a medical assessment unit: A qualitative study

• Helen Cleak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Cleak, Sonya R. Osborne

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Allied Health, Human Service and Sport, College of Science, Health & Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Sonya R. Osborne ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Cleak, Sonya R. Osborne

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sonya.osborne@usq.edu.au

  Current address: Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences, Centre for Health Research, Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2826-0627

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• Julian W. M. de Looze

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Aged Care, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Herston, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2084-0229

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