Browsing by Subject "Emergency Service, Hospital"
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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Randomized Control Trial of a Tailored, Multifactorial Program to Prevent Falls Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly.
(Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 2019-01)<h4>Objective</h4>To perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of a multifactorial, tailored intervention to reduce falls among a heterogeneous group of high-risk elderly people.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized control trial.<h4>Se... -
A cross-sectional exploratory study of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency health care providers in the assessment of child maltreatment in Maputo, Mozambique.
(BMC emergency medicine, 2018-05-09)BACKGROUND:In Mozambique, and other low-income countries (LICs), there is little information on the burden of child maltreatment (CM). Emergency care services (ECS) play an important role in recognizing, treating, and intervening ... -
Acute myocardial infarction under-diagnosis and mortality in a Tanzanian emergency department: A prospective observational study.
(American heart journal, 2020-08)BACKGROUND:Growing evidence suggests that under-diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may be common in sub-Saharan Africa. Prospective studies of routine AMI screening among patients presenting to emergency departments ... -
Alcohol and drug use disorders among adults in emergency department settings in the United States.
(Annals of emergency medicine, 2012-08)Improving identification and treatment for substance use disorders is a national priority, but data about various drug use disorders encountered in emergency departments (EDs) are lacking. We examine past-year substance ... -
Are patients with longer emergency department wait times less likely to consent to research?
(Acad Emerg Med, 2012-04)OBJECTIVES: There are unique challenges to enrolling patients in emergency department (ED) clinical research studies, including the time-sensitive nature of emergency conditions, the acute care environment, and the lack ... -
Can we understand population healthcare needs using electronic medical records?
(Singapore medical journal, 2019-09)<h4>Introduction</h4>The identification of population-level healthcare needs using hospital electronic medical records (EMRs) is a promising approach for the evaluation and development of tailored healthcare services. Population ... -
Cardiac injury due to accidental discharge of nail gun.
(The Journal of emergency medicine, 2013-02)<h4>Background</h4>Since 1991, the incidence of injuries associated with pneumatic and explosive powered nail guns has steadily been rising due to increasing use of these devices by the untrained consumer. The vast majority ... -
Care of the Patient with Chest Pain in the Observation Unit.
(Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2017-08)Care of the patient presenting to an emergency department (ED) with chest pain remains a common yet challenging aspect of emergency medicine. Acute coronary syndrome presents in nonspecific fashion. The development and evolution ... -
Differences between chest pain observation service patients and admitted "rule-out myocardial infarction" patients.
(Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 1997-07)<h4>Objective</h4>To compare and contrast the patient characteristics of ED patients at low risk for acute cardiac ischemia who were assigned to a chest pain observation service vs those admitted to a monitored inpatient ... -
Direct vs Video Laryngoscopy for Difficult Airway Patients in the Emergency Department: A National Emergency Airway Registry Study.
(The western journal of emergency medicine, 2022-08)<h4>Introduction</h4>Previous studies suggest improved intubation success using video laryngoscopy (VL) vs direct laryngoscopy (DL), yet recent randomized trials have not shown clear benefit of one method over the other. ... -
Discriminating Bacterial and Viral Infection Using a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test.
(Critical care medicine, 2021-10)<h4>Objectives</h4>Host gene expression signatures discriminate bacterial and viral infection but have not been translated to a clinical test platform. This study enrolled an independent cohort of patients to describe and ... -
Early prescribing outcomes after exporting the EQUIPPED medication safety improvement programme.
(BMJ open quality, 2021-11)Enhancing quality of prescribing practices for older adults discharged from the Emergency Department (EQUIPPED) aims to reduce the monthly proportion of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) prescribed to older adults ... -
Effectiveness of Acute Care Remote Triage Systems: a Systematic Review.
(Journal of general internal medicine, 2020-07)<h4>Background</h4>Technology-based systems can facilitate remote decision-making to triage patients to the appropriate level of care. Despite technologic advances, the effects of implementation of these systems on patient ... -
Efficacy of High-Sensitivity Troponin T in Identifying Very-Low-Risk Patients With Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome.
(JAMA cardiology, 2018-02)Importance:Physicians need information on how to use the first available high-sensitivity troponin (hsTnT) assay in the United States to identify patients at very low risk for 30-day adverse cardiac events (ACE). Objective:To ... -
Emergency Department Care Transitions for Patients With Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review.
(Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2022-08)<h4>Objectives</h4>We aimed to describe emergency department (ED) care transition interventions delivered to older adults with cognitive impairment, identify relevant patient-centered outcomes, and determine priority research ... -
Emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest.
(Resuscitation, 2016-12)Point-of-care ultrasound has been suggested to improve outcomes from advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), but no large studies have explored how it should be incorporated into ACLS. Our aim was to determine whether cardiac ... -
Emergency physician high pretest probability for acute coronary syndrome correlates with adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
(Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2009-08)OBJECTIVES: The value of unstructured physician estimate of risk for disease processes, other than acute coronary syndrome (ACS), has been demonstrated. The authors sought to evaluate the predictive value of unstructured ... -
Human trafficking of children and adolescents: recognition and response in the emergency department.
(Pediatric emergency medicine practice, 2022-07)Labor and sex trafficking impact children of all ages, genders, and nationalities. Trafficked patients present to the emergency department for illnesses and injuries both related and unrelated to their trafficking experiences. ... -
Identification of chest pain patients appropriate for an emergency department observation unit.
(Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2001-02)There are no perfect tests or algorithms to exclude ACI. Because acute coronary occlusion often occurs in patients with low-grade coronary stenosis, the diagnostic goal of a chest pain diagnostic protocol is not to identify ... -
Impact of renal dysfunction on acute coronary syndrome evaluation in observation unit patients.
(Am J Emerg Med, 2010-07)OBJECTIVES: The impact of renal disease on risk stratification of patients at low risk for potential acute coronary syndrome has not been well defined. The objective of this study was to document the prevalence of renal ...
