Table 7 Tabulation of assessing clinician and delay to surgery
From: Evaluating the diagnostic pathway for acute ACL injuries in trauma centres: a systematic review
Author | Assessing clinician | Time until surgery | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ball et al. 2010 [12] | Unspecified | 196 | ||
‘specialist’ | 126 | |||
Lee and Yun. 2019 [17] | Board-certified emergency physician with over 5 years of experience AND specialist MSK radiologist | – | ||
Hardy et al. 2017 (time to initial appointment with surgeon) [3] | 22 specialists | Follow up arranged | 61 | |
Follow up arranged with initial diagnosis removed | 69 | |||
No follow up arranged | 328 | |||
No follow up arranged with initial diagnosis removed | 311 | |||
Wang et al. 2016 [7] | In the ED | junior orthopaedic surgeon | – | |
In the OPD follow-up | senior orthopaedic surgeon | |||
Parwaiz et al. 2016 [6] | advanced nurse practitioner OR A junior ED trainee OR A senior ED trainee | – | ||
Clifford et al. 2021 [9] | triaged by an A&E Sister and assessed by an A&E physician | 1 | – | |
A&E registrar | 1 | |||
triaged by nurses and assessed by an A&E Physician | 4 | |||
normal adult triage route and then assessed by an A&E physician | 53 | |||
adult triage and was then assessed by an emergency nurse practitioner | 1 | |||
orthopaedic doctor | 1 | |||