“Around the clock”: Exploring health care professionals’ experience of discharge of older people during out of hours from the emergency department: A qualitative study

Mary Dunnion; Debbie Goode; Assumpta Ryan; Sonja McIlfatrick

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0313968

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“Around the clock”: Exploring health care professionals’ experience of discharge of older people during out of hours from the emergency department: A qualitative study

Mary Dunnion ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Dunnion, Debbie Goode, Assumpta Ryan, Sonja McIlfatrick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Dunnion-m1@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Nursing and Paramedic Science, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2648-5125

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Debbie Goode ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Dunnion, Debbie Goode, Assumpta Ryan, Sonja McIlfatrick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing and Paramedic Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Science, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7428-901X

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Assumpta Ryan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Dunnion, Debbie Goode, Assumpta Ryan, Sonja McIlfatrick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing and Paramedic Science, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Derry~Londonderry, United Kingdom
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Sonja McIlfatrick

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Dunnion, Debbie Goode, Assumpta Ryan, Sonja McIlfatrick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing and Paramedic Sciences, Faculty of Life and Health Science, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom
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“Around the clock”: Exploring health care professionals’ experience of discharge of older people during out of hours from the emergency department: A qualitative study

Mary Dunnion,
Debbie Goode,
Assumpta Ryan,
Sonja McIlfatrick

Published: August 22, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313968

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