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Challenges and Barriers Affecting the Quality of Triage in Emergency Departments: A Qualitative Study

Galen medical journal, 2019
Background: Correct and fast triage is the key to successful performance in emergency departments. Various factors can affect the quality of triage; therefore, the present study was conducted to identify and explore the existing challenges in triage ...
Mostafa Bijani, A. Khaleghi
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Antibiotic prescribing errors generated by the use of an electronic prescribing system in the emergency department: A mixed-method study. [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2022
Context: Inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics can result in serious patient harm. Aims: To investigate the incidence, nature, clinical severity, and causes of antibiotic prescribing errors (APEs) in the emergency department (ED) of a large ...
Ahmad Z. Al Meslamani, Derar H. Abdel-Qader, Noura Ziad, Nadia Al Mazrouei, Asma A. El-Shara, Husam El Sharu, Eman Merghani Ali, Rand Haider Al Zahawi, Samah Bahy Mohammed Ebaed, Osama Mohamed Ibrahim   +9 more
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The impact of general practitioners working in or alongside emergency departments: a rapid realist review

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives Worldwide, emergency healthcare systems are under intense pressure from ever-increasing demand and evidence is urgently needed to understand how this can be safely managed. An estimated 10%–43% of emergency department patients could be treated
A. Cooper, F. Davies, Michelle Edwards, P. Anderson, A. Carson-Stevens, M. Cooke, L. Donaldson, J. Dale, B. Evans, P. Hibbert, T. Hughes, A. Porter, Tim Rainer, A. Siriwardena, H. Snooks, A. Edwards   +15 more
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Overcrowding in emergency departments: A review of strategies to decrease future challenges

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Emergency departments (EDs) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. The goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in EDs.
M. Yarmohammadian, F. Rezaei, A. Haghshenas, Nahid Tavakoli   +3 more
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Implementation facilitation to promote emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: protocol for a hybrid type III effectiveness-implementation study (Project ED HEALTH)

Implementation Science, 2019
Background Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) frequently present to the emergency department (ED) after overdose, or seeking treatment for general medical conditions, their addiction, withdrawal symptoms, or complications of injection drug use, such
Gail D’Onofrio, E. Jennifer Edelman, Kathryn F. Hawk, Michael V. Pantalon, Marek C. Chawarski, Patricia H. Owens, Shara H. Martel, Paul VanVeldhuisen, Neal Oden, Sean M. Murphy, Kristen Huntley, Patrick G. O’Connor, David A. Fiellin   +12 more
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ED Patient Experience: Does Day of the Week or Time of the Day Matter?

Journal of Patient Experience, 2022
The effect of the arrival day of the week, arrival time of the day, or discharge time of the day on emergency department (ED) patient experience (PE) scores has not been well studied. We performed a retrospective analysis of ED patients between July 1st,
Samer Badr MD, Andrew Nyce MD, Amine Al Soueidy MD, Brian Freeze MD, Joshua Bosire MS, Franziska Jovin MD, Eric Kupersmith MD, Anthony Mazzarelli MD, Jean-Sebastien Rachoin MD   +8 more
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Updated Management of Atrial Fibrillation

Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia. AF is also associated with increased mortality, stroke and other thromboembolic disorders, cardiac failure and hospital admission, diminished quality of life, exercise intolerance,
Mehmet Ergin, Zerrin Defne Dündar, Semra Aslay, Mücahit Emet   +3 more
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Over-the-counter Medication Use among Patients Presenting with Fever in the Emergency Department in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Journal of Nepal Medical Association
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Mrikchhya Ghimire, Ujjwol Prasad Risal, Rabin Bhandari   +2 more
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Availability of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for computed tomography scanning decision in children younger than 2 years with minor head injury [PDF]

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2015
Purpose Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of pediatric injury. Although computed tomography (CT) scan is an effective modality for screening fatal craniocerebral trauma, there is growing concern about radiation exposure associated with the ...
Kwang Yul Jung, Seung Baik Han, Jae Sung Lee, Jae Jin Kim, Young Ju Suh, Ji Hye Kim   +5 more
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Modern Paediatric Emergency Department: Potential Improvements in Light of New Evidence

Children, 2023
The increasing attendance of paediatric emergency departments has become a serious health issue. To reduce an elevated burden of medical errors, inevitably caused by a high level of stress exerted on emergency physicians, we propose potential areas for ...
Roman Kula, Stanislav Popela, Jozef Klučka, Daniela Charwátová, Jana Djakow, Petr Štourač   +5 more
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