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Emergency department utilization in elderly patients: a report from the National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS) of Korea, 2018-2022 [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2023
Objective With general aging of the population, emergency department (ED) utilization by elderly patients is increasing. In this study, we analyzed data on ED visits of patients aged 65 years and older in Korea.
Sun Young Lim, You Hwan Jo, Seongjung Kim, Eunsil Ko, Young Sun Ro, Jungeon Kim, Sumin Baek   +6 more
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Identification of violence in the hospital environment: perceptions of nurses

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Violence is recognised by the WHO as a major and ubiquitous public health problem, that is constantly worsening. Objectives The aim of our work was to estimate the frequency of aggressions against nurses in psychiatric and emergency ...
M. Mnif, N. Smaoui, R. Feki, I. Gassara, S. Omri, N. Charfi, J. Ben Thabet, L. Zouari, M. Maalej, M. Maalej   +9 more
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Unconditional Care in Academic Emergency Departments [PDF]

, 2020
Recent news stories have explicitly stated that patients with symptoms of COVID-19 were "turned away" from emergency departments. This commentary addresses these serious allegations, with an attempt to provide the perspective of academic emergency ...
Burton, John H, Miner, James R, Ian B.K. Martin, Lall, Michelle D, Newgard, Craig D., Coates, Wendy C, Angela M. Mills, Bird, Steven B., Mills, Angela M, Newgard, Craig D, John H. Burton, Dorner, Stephen C., Kaji, Amy H., Holmes, James F, Michelle D. Lall, Holmes, James F., Kaji, Amy H, Martin, Ian BK, Burton, John H., Kline, Jeffrey A, Megan L. Ranney, Dorner, Stephen C, Richard E. Wolfe, Steven B. Bird, Quest, Tammie, Stephen C. Dorner, Amy H. Kaji, Mills, Angela M., Ranney, Megan L, Zachary F. Meisel, Craig D. Newgard, Meisel, Zachary F, Coates, Wendy C., Wolfe, Richard E, Wendy C. Coates, Meisel, Zachary F., Christopher R. Carpenter, Miner, James R., Jeffrey A. Kline, James R. Miner, Martin, Ian B. K., Lall, Michelle D., Bird, Steven B, Carpenter, Christopher R., James F. Holmes, Kline, Jeffrey A., Ranney, Megan L., Carpenter, Christopher R, Tammie Quest, Wolfe, Richard E.   +49 more
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Triggers of Workplace Violence in Emergency Departments: A Qualitative Study

Nurse Media: Journal of Nursing, 2022
Background: Workplace violence has become an alarming phenomenon facing healthcare systems worldwide. Emergency nurses were the most victimized from workplace violence incidents.
Ibrahim Ayasreh, Ferial Hayajneh, Rana Al Awamleh, Mohammed ALBashtawy, Abdullah Al-Khawaldeh   +4 more
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Prehospital characteristics of COVID-19 patients in Helsinki – experience of the first wave of the pandemic

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background There is a lack of knowledge how patients with COVID-19 disease differ from patients with similar signs or symptoms (but who will have a diagnosis other than COVID-19) in the prehospital setting.
Markku Kuisma, Heini Harve-Rytsälä, Jussi Pirneskoski, James Boyd, Mitja Lääperi, Ari Salo, Tuukka Puolakka   +6 more
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The Effect of Emergency Department Expansion on Emergency Department Overcrowding [PDF]

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2007
Abstract Objectives: To examine the effects of emergency department (ED) expansion on ambulance diversion at an urban, academic Level 1 trauma center. Methods: This was a pre‐post study performed using administrative data from the ED and hospital electronic information systems.
Jin H, Han, Chuan, Zhou, Daniel J, France, Sheng, Zhong, Ian, Jones, Alan B, Storrow, Dominik, Aronsky   +6 more
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Type of facility influences lengths of stay of children presenting to high volume emergency departments

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background Emergency department crowding may impact patient and provider outcomes. We describe emergency department crowding metrics based on presentations by children to different categories of high volume emergency departments in Alberta, Canada ...
Rhonda J. Rosychuk, Brian H. Rowe
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Overcrowded ERs: analysis of the phenomenon and managing proposals

Emergency Care Journal, 2010
The “overcrowding” in Emergency Departments (EDs) and its potentially negative consequences, is a well known phenomenon in western countries.
Gianfranco Cervellin, Mario Cavazza, Gianni Rastelli   +2 more
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Quality of gout care in the emergency departments: a multicentre study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2020
Background To report on prevalence of gout flare in emergency departments and to report the quality of gout care in emergency departments and causes of admission at emergency departments.
Patapong Towiwat, Pariwat Phungoen, Kitti Tantrawiwat, Pavita Laohakul, Duangkamol Aiewruengsurat, Chokchai Thanadetsuntorn, Nopparat Ruchakorn, Passagorn Sangsawangchot, Bodin Buttham   +8 more
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Screening and brief interventions for hazardous alcohol use in accident and emergency departments: a randomised controlled trial protocol [PDF]

, 2009
There is a wealth of evidence regarding the detrimental impact of excessive alcohol consumption on the physical, psychological and social health of the population.
Myles, J., Deluca Paolo, Perryman, K., Bland, M., Drummond, Colin, Perryman Katherine, Shepherd, Jonathan, Gilvarry Eilish, Newbury-Birch, Dorothy, Deluca, P., Miles, Judy, Mike Crawford, Cassidy, P., Crawford, M., Phillips, T., Shenker Don, Godfrey, Christine, Deluca, Paolo; id_orcid, Myles, Judy, Jonathan Shepherd, Parrott Steve, Coulton, S., Christine Godfrey, Bland, Martin, Shepherd Jonathan, Perryman, Katherine, Phillips, Tom, Newbury-Birch Dorothy, Oyefeso Adenekan, Eileen Kaner, Oyefeso, A., Shenker, D., Myles Judy, Adenekan Oyefeso, Shepherd, Jonathan Paul, Judy Myles, Steve Parrott, Don Shenker, Heather, Nick, Oyefeso, Adenekan, Coulton, Simon, Deluca, Paolo, Parrott, Steve, Katherine Perryman, Colin Drummond, Coulton Simon, Kaner Eileen, Godfrey, C., Newbury-Birch, D., Newbury-Birch, Dorothy; id_orcid, Drummond, Colin; id_orcid, Paolo Deluca, Nick Heather, Cassidy, Paul, Phillips Tom, Tom Phillips, Godfrey Christine, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Crawford Mike, Bland Martin, Gilvarry, Eilish, Kaner, Eileen, Kaner, E., Parrott, S., Cassidy Paul, Drummond, C., Heather, N., Simon Coulton, Shenker, Don, Martin Bland, Crawford, Mike, Philips, Tom, Eilish Gilvarry, Gilvarry, E., Drummond Colin, Heather Nick, Paul Cassidy   +76 more
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