TY - JOUR AU - McKenna, Brian AU - Furness, Trentham AU - Brown, Steve AU - Tacey, Mark AU - Hiam, Andrew AU - Wise, Morgan PY - 2015 DA - 2015/07/10 TI - Police and clinician diversion of people in mental health crisis from the Emergency Department: a trend analysis and cross comparison study JO - BMC Emergency Medicine SP - 14 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - The Northern Police and Clinician Emergency Response (NPACER), a combined police and clinician second response team, was created to divert people in mental health crisis away from the hospital emergency department (ED) to care in the community or direct admission to acute inpatient services. The aim of this study was to evaluate the NPACER by comparing trends in service utilisation prior to and following its inception. SN - 1471-227X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-015-0040-7 DO - 10.1186/s12873-015-0040-7 ID - McKenna2015 ER -