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Behavioral Health Flag Use by Race and Ethnicity in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

open access: yesJAMA Netw Open
Foltz D   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When is an emergency department not an emergency department?

BMJ, 2002
EDITOR—Recently, a young couple, equipped with backpacks and bedrolls, walked into our local accident and emergency department at about 11 pm, climbed into sleeping bags, and set their alarm clock. Early next morning, roused by their alarm, the couple rolled up their bags and left. What was the explanation for this behaviour?
Trevor Turner, Sue Collinson
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Hypertensive Emergencies in the Emergency Department [PDF]

open access: possibleEmergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2015
Hypertension affects approximately one-third of Americans. An additional 30% are unaware that they harbor the disease. Significantly increased blood pressure constitutes a hypertensive emergency that could lead to end-organ damage. When organs such as the brain, heart, or kidney are affected, an intervention that will lower the blood pressure in ...
Robert L. Rogers, Omoyemi Adebayo
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Frailty in emergency departments [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Lancet, 2016
434 www.thelancet.com Vol 387 January 30, 2016 exists and frailty classifications can diff er vastly depending on which frailty measurement is used. Third, frailty is often erroneously judged to be part of the normal ageing process, and in turn, older patients might be treated based on their medical disorders, rather than their physiological ...
Elsa Dent   +5 more
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Emergency contraception in the emergency department

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which will limit legal abortion in many areas of the U.S., making the need for effective emergency contraception even more critical.This narrative review focuses on the approach to providing safe and effective emergency contraception in the emergency department (ED) with a focus on agents that
Maryann, Mazer-Amirshahi, Peggy, Ye
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Emergency departments in The Netherlands

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2011
Emergency medicine in The Netherlands is faced with an increasing interest by politicians and stakeholders in health care. This is due to crowding, increasing costs, criticism of the quality of emergency care, restructuring of out-of-hours services in primary care and the introduction of a training programme for emergency physicians in 2000.
Thijssen, W.A.M.H.   +3 more
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