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Implementing emergency department-based HIV testing in a low-resource setting: The value of a structured feasibility assessment tool

open access: yesSouthern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2018
Introduction: HIV is a worldwide health problem with continuing high rates of new infections in many parts of the world. This lack of progress in decreasing overall incidence rates has sparked innovative HIV testing strategies, including expansion of ...
Madeleine Whalen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel CHMP2B Splicing Variant in Atypical Presentation of Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT C‐truncating variants in the charged multivesicular body protein 2B (CHMP2B) gene are a rare cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), previously identified only in Denmark, Belgium, and China. We report a novel CHMP2B splice‐site variant (c.35‐1G>A) associated with familial FTLD in Spain. The cases were two monozygotic male twins who
Sara Rubio‐Guerra   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Patient Flow & Reducing Emergency Department (ED) Crowding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Offers early lessons from RWJF's Urgent Matters Learning Network II, a six-hospital collaborative to assess the implementation of strategies for better patient flow and less crowding, develop standard performance measurements, and promote best ...

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Demographics and scope of Australian emergency department physiotherapists

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emergency Medicine
Questions To provide workforce data on the status of Australian Emergency Department (ED) physiotherapy practice, including physiotherapist demographic data, staffing levels and funding sources.
Tina Vickery, Lindsey Brett, Taryn Jones
doaj   +1 more source

Inter-level and Seasonal Variation in Reasons for Inappropriate Emergency Department Use: A Three Centers Study

open access: yesEurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine
Aim: Inappropriate emergency department (ED) use represents an important problem for health systems across the world. This study was designed to determine the reasons for inappropriate ED visits at different ED care levels during different seasons ...
Melih İmamoğlu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) in the Emergency Department

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014
Introduction: Consensus guidelines recommend sepsis screening for adults with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), but the epidemiology of SIRS among adult emergency department (ED) patients is poorly understood.
Timothy Horeczko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emergency Department-based Intensive Care Unit Use Peaks Near Emergency Department Shift Turnover

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020
Introduction: The Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3) is an emergency department-based intensive care unit (ED-ICU) designed to improve timely access to critical care for ED patients.
Nathan L. Haas   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The birth of an emergency department

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Emergency Medicine (EM) as a specialty is still quite new in South Africa and even more so in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The province boasts no more than five Emergency Medicine physicians and four fledgling, specialist-run emergency departments. One of these, the emergency department (ED) at Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, is threatening to
openaire   +3 more sources

Experience of a tutor centric model for sonography training of emergency department registrars in an Australian urban emergency department 2009–2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose: To assess the impact of a regular sonographer proctored training program for emergency medicine trainees in the use of Emergency Department bedside ultrasound Methods: Emergency Department (ED) Registrars in the Swan District Hospital ED were ...
Fear, Mark   +2 more
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Emergency Contraception: a survey of Hospital Emergency Departments Staffs

open access: yesEmergency Care Journal, 2011
The World Health Organization defines emergency contraception (EC) as a means to prevent unwanted pregnancy. In countries where EC is dispensed behind the counter, emergency departments are a preferred point of care for its prescription and dispensing ...
Marco Bo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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