Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia : an observational study [PDF]
© 2014 Amador et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
A Gruneir +25 more
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Patient satisfaction in the emergency department: a case of Sina hospital in Tabriz [PDF]
Objective: Patient satisfaction is one of the most important indicators for measuring the quality of emergency services and health care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patients’ satisfaction in the emergency department (ED) of Sina ...
Maryam Eshghi +4 more
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Aim: To identify and appraise evidence relating to the features of an Emergency Medicine System call interaction that enable, or inhibit, an Emergency Medical Dispatcher’s recognition that a patient is in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, or at imminent ...
Kim Kirby +3 more
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The relationship between health care users’ demand and the health care system’s response: a research on change observed in the health care system, in the hospital and in the territory [PDF]
The present research study aims at exploring the representation of the health service within a group of hospital physicians and nurses. The objective is to identify how the symbolic dynamic of hospital workers shapes their own praxis.
Caputo, Andrea +5 more
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Background Elderly and frail patients who are unable to call for help in case of vital distress can develop complications during their hospitalization. As a supplement to clinical monitoring by the nursing staff, these patients can also be monitored in ...
Daniel Aiham Ghazali +3 more
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The impact of neighborhood deprivation on patients' unscheduled out-of-hours healthcare seeking behavior: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Background: The use of unscheduled out of hours medical care is related to the social status of the patient. However, the social variance in the patient's preference for a hospital based versus a primary care based facility, and the impact of specific ...
Buylaert, Walter +5 more
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Pre-hospital management protocols and perceived difficulty in diagnosing acute heart failure [PDF]
Aim To illustrate the pre-hospital management arsenals and protocols in different EMS units, and to estimate the perceived difficulty of diagnosing suspected acute heart failure (AHF) compared with other common pre-hospital conditions.
Banaszewski, Marek +77 more
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ANALYSIS OF THE PROFILE OF THE PATIENT AS VICTIM OF MULTIPLE TRAUMA
This quantitative, exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study was undertaken in the Emergency Department of a hospital specialized in treating multiple trauma. The aim was to analyze the profile of the patients affected by multiple trauma.
Katia Cilene Godinho Bertoncello +2 more
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Co-Create Solutions: Innovate or Evaporate: the Value Driven PMO [PDF]
Project Management Offices (PMOs) are commonplace in today’s technology-driven healthcare organizations. This case study is about a Middle Eastern PMO that was instrumental in opening a greenfield hospital and optimizing the services provided by the ...
Langston, Craig Ashley +2 more
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Morbidity burden and community-based palliative care are associated with rates of hospital use by people with schizophrenia in the last year of life: A population-based matched cohort study [PDF]
Objective: People with schizophrenia face an increased risk of premature death from chronic diseases and injury. This study describes the trajectory of acute care health service use in the last year of life for people with schizophrenia and how this ...
Arendts, Glenn +4 more
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