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Planning for Hospital Emergency Services
Postgraduate Medicine, 1971An increasing number of patients are using hospital emergency rooms as drop-in clinics. Several approaches and innovations are suggested here for solving this problem to the benefit of both the patient and the hospital. Among the suggestions is the establishment of the triage system. If patient needs are to be properly met, a great deal of planning for
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Funding hospital-based emergency services
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 1993In the final analysis, implementing the ED funding model will not generate additional dollars for hospitals; rather the funding model will function as a tool for reallocating existing health care dollars. This function is particularly important as government funding for health care is subjected to increasing financial restraint. As such, the ED funding
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Monitoring System for Emergency Service in a Hospital Environment [PDF]
2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG), 2019 The hospital emergency service remains the first choice for the vast majority of patients. The large influx of hospital emergency services, combined with the lack of health professionals, often makes the patients susceptible to excessive waiting times. As a result, their health condition may worse after triage, until they are observed by a doctor.
A. Reis +5 more
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Expanding Psychiatric Service in a Hospital Emergency Room
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979Senior medical residents were used to extend psychiatric coverage in a busy hospital emergency room. Their service was supported by the backup consultation of senior psychiatric physicians. The medical residents worked in conjunction with psychiatric residents to provide 24-hour daily emergency psychiatric service to more than 350 patients during a 12 ...
Gary Nyman +3 more
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Improving Quality in Emergency Services to Reduce Hospital Admission [PDF]
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 1993 At the Emergency Department of Udine General Hospital (Italy) a programme to reduce admissions to the Internal Medicine Department was introduced in 1991. The majority of these admissions come from the Emergency Department, where many people, often without acute conditions, claim medical care. The programme consisted in organizational, professional and
Paolo Giorgi Rossi +6 more
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Reasons for hospitalization from a psychiatric emergency service
The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1974The reasons for hospitalization of 341 patients from a university-based psychiatric emergency service were studied. The need for protection was the most frequent reason for hospitalization (51%), with the need for inpatient diagnostic studies or treatment second in frequency (36%).
Haroutun M. Babigian, Gary D. Hanson
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EMTALA and the Ethical Delivery of Hospital Emergency Services
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2006This article examines the role and impact of EMTALA on the ethical delivery of hospital-based emergency services, primarily through close inspection of three of the core EMTALA mandates: the medical screening examination, the duty to accept patients in transfer from less capable facilities, and the requirement that the hospital provide on-call ...
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The crisis in United States hospital emergency services
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2011PurposeEmergency services are critical for high‐quality healthcare service provision to support acute illness, trauma and disaster response. The greater availability of emergency services decreases waiting time, improves clinical outcomes and enhances local community well being.
Emily D. Ferguson, Jeffrey P. Harrison
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EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICE AT WILLS HOSPITAL
Archives of Ophthalmology, 1944This survey of the emergency room cases at Wills Hospital was originally undertaken to determine the relative value of the service in experience and training to the resident surgeon. The study serves the additional purpose of recording the incidence and type of the so-called accident ward cases of a specialized hospital and may perhaps be of value from
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Organization structure and the performance of hospital emergency services
Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1985A comparative study of 30 hospital emergency departments (EDs) and nearly 1,500 individuals associated with them was conducted. Data were obtained from institutional records, physicians, patients, and other sources. The object was to investigate the relationship between the organization and performance of these health service systems.
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