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Emergency department and hospital crowding: causes, consequences, and cures [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019 Overcrowding with associated delays in patient care is a problem faced by emergency departments (EDs) worldwide. ED overcrowding can be the result of poor ED department design and prolonged throughput due to staffing, ancillary service performance, and ...
Peter McKenna +5 more
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Nurses' work process in an emergency hospital service [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objectives: to analyze the nurses' work process in an Emergency Hospital Service. Methods: a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research conducted with 17 nurses from the emergency service of a high complexity hospital in southern Brazil.
Simone Kroll Rabelo +6 more
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Findings regarding non-sexual penile fracture in a referral emergency hospital [PDF]
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2021 Purpose: To describe penile fracture (PF) findings with non-sexual etiology in a referral emergency hospital, with emphasis on demographic data, clinical and intraoperative findings and long-term outcomes.
Rodrigo Barros +4 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on a paediatric emergency service
European Journal of Pediatrics, 2021 COVID-19 has significantly affected the use of health care worldwide and, consequently, admissions to hospital emergency services. The aim of this study is to describe the change of the activity of a Paediatric Emergency Service (PES) of a tertiary ...
R. Paiva +3 more
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Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background: Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are one of the most basic and fundamental screening tools used in the emergency department (ED). Previous studies have shown machine diagnosis of ECG to be unreliable, the ECG machine does provide a simpler ...
Afnan S. Sharourou +5 more
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The prehospital emergency medical service system in Korea: its current status and future direction
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2023 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Hospital, Seoul, South Korea 2Laboratory of Emergency Medical Services, Seoul National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea 3Disaster ...
J. Park, K. Song, S. Shin
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background In Sweden, the majority of patients who are transported to hospital by the emergency medical services (EMS) are relatively old and the majority suffer from comorbidity. About half these patients are admitted to a hospital ward and will stay in
Carl Magnusson +4 more
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Evaluation of hand injury management at the emergency department - are we getting better? [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 Background/Aim. Hand injuries are one of the most common injuries seen in emergency departments. Inadequate treatment can lead to prolonged healing, complications, significant morbidity, and serious disability.
Nikolić Jelena +3 more
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Interventions in overcrowding of emergency departments: an overview of systematic reviews
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020 OBJECTIVE To present an overview of systematic reviews on throughput interventions to solve the overcrowding of emergency departments. METHODS Electronic searches for reviews published between 2007 and 2018 were made on PubMed, Cochrane Library ...
Roberto José Bittencourt +4 more
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Decreased utilization of mental health emergency service during the COVID-19 pandemic
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2020 During the rapid rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction of the numbers of patients presenting to emergency departments has been observed. We present an early study from a German psychiatric hospital to assess the dynamics of mental health emergency ...
C. Hoyer +5 more
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