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Violence in the emergency department

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2011
Violence towards staff is of serious concern across health-care services. Health professionals are one of the most likely groups to experience violence and aggression in the workplace (Table 1), second only to the protective service occupations: Language ...
Julian Lousada, Sarah Voss, Olivia Joyner, Nigel Caldwell, Tom Lloyd, Jonathan Benger   +5 more
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Traumatic brain injury in the United States; emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths

, 2006
Acknowledgments The authors thank Richard Sattin for his insightful comments and Mario Schootman for preparing a preliminary version of the report. The authors also offer sincere thanks to Patricia Holmgreen, Dionne White, Lee Annest, and other members ...
J. Langlois, Wesley Rutland-Brown, K. Thomas   +2 more
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Erythroderma in the emergency department

BMJ, 2013
A 29 year old man was referred to the dermatology department by the accident and emergency department because of a “maculopapular rash.” He had a four day history of an upper respiratory tract infection. Within half an hour of ingesting an over-the-counter flu remedy he developed redness and itching of his skin and a burning sensation in his groins and
Malcolm H.A. Rustin, S A Rice, Rubaiyat Haque, Victoria Swale   +3 more
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Catatonia in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985
The catatonic syndrome has a wide differential diagnosis that includes both psychiatric and organic disorders. We present the cases of two patients with catatonia seen acutely in the emergency department. In these cases, the striking clinical picture proved to be secondary to psychiatric disturbances, and were accompanied by dementia in the second ...
Marcia Valenstein, Allan A. Maltbie, Peter W. Kaplan   +2 more
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Emergency Department Thoracotomy

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1989
The best candidates for a community hospital emergency room thoracotomy are those victims who have decompensated following small-caliber gunshot wounds or stab wounds to the chest or abdomen who initially had signs of life in transport to the hospital or in the Emergency Department.
Chat Dang, Jonathan Wasserberger, Theodore L. Schlater, Gary J. Ordog   +3 more
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Early Task Initiation and Other Load-Adaptive Mechanisms in the Emergency Department

Management Sciences, 2017
We study a multistage service process that adapts to system occupancy level. Using operational data from more than 140,000 patient visits to a hospital emergency department, we show that the system-level performance of the emergency department is an ...
R. Batt, C. Terwiesch
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Violence in the Emergency Department

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016
Violence is common in the emergency department (ED). The ED setting has numerous environmental risk factors for violence, including poor staffing, lack of privacy, overcrowding, and ready availability of nonsecured equipment that can be used as weapons. Strategies can be taken to mitigate the risk of violence toward health care workers, including staff
Keith R. Stowell, Nolan P. Hughes, John S. Rozel   +2 more
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Leprosy in the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2000
Abstract. Objectives: Los Angeles County—University of Southern California Medical Center, like many large urban hospitals, has a large immigrant population from regions of the world where leprosy is endemic. Emergency physicians (EPs) in these settings can expect to encounter leprosy patients.
William K. Mallon, Richard J. Hoffner, Victor I. Esekogwu   +2 more
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Violence in the Emergency Department

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1998
The spillover of societal violence continues to escalate in emergency departments (EDs) in the United States. The violence is not limited to urban, inner-city environments; it extends into the rural areas as well. Preventive techniques need to be addressed.
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The Role of the Emergency Department

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
Emergency department care for patients whose problems are not true emergencies has become a fashionable scapegoat for the ills of the health care system in the United States. Such care is considered wasteful and expensive and is therefore a prime target for cost-cutting efforts by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other insurers.1,2 In 1992 ...
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