Urgent Care as Intermediary Care: How Inbound and Outbound Transport Can Enhance Care of Community-Based Pediatric Emergencies

With increasing options for acute care outside the medical home, high-functioning freestanding pediatric urgent care centers (UCCs) have become epicenters for intermediary care: alternate destinations for acutely ill or injured children with serious but not imminent life-threatening problems. Pediatric UCCs may be an optimal site to treat low acuity emergency medical services (EMS) patients, to triage true pediatric emergencies, and to develop universal transfer protocols to transition children to hospitals for higher levels of acute or subspecialty care.
Source: Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research