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EMERGENCY SERVICE WITHIN THE HOSPITAL

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1957
• When respiratory difficulties develop in a hospital patient, the anesthesiologist should be called promptly. Emergency kits should be kept ready at all times in a central location. This report analyzes 100 consecutive cases in which anesthesiologists were called for help in emergency rooms, the nursery, the radiology department, and the medical and ...
C H, ZIEGLER, J, JACOBY
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Crisis hospitalization on a psychiatric emergency service

General Hospital Psychiatry, 1993
AbstractCrisis hospitalization has both an affirmative rationale in the community movement and a secondary rationale of cost containment. Brief hospitalization within the psychiatric emergency service offers intensive treatment and a rapid return to the community for the patient and is cost‐effective for the mental health system.
R E, Breslow, B I, Klinger, B J, Erickson   +2 more
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Planning for Hospital Emergency Services

Postgraduate Medicine, 1971
An 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, 1993
In 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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Adjunct Hospital Emergency Toxicology Service

JAMA, 1976
A feasibility demonstration with a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer/computer system (GC/MS) was initiated to provide a 24-hour (seven days/week) adjunct emergency toxicology service to the hospitals in the tricounty area comprising Metropolitan Detroit.
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Crisis Hospitalization Within a Psychiatric Emergency Service

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
The authors describe the expansion of an emergency psychiatric service to include the use of short-term hospitalization as an integral part of crisis therapy. Experience during the first year of operation, when 200 patients were treated, is summarized.
M W, Rhine, P, Mayerson
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Emergency Social Services in a Pediatric Hospital

Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals, 1980
Abstract More and more frequently, social workers are being called to serve in emergency rooms. The way in which social workers respond to these requests will be an important factor in determining the future role of social workers in medical settings (Bergman, 1976, p. 39).
G F, Kuo, D, Zamora
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General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Services

1984
From humble origins in the occasional consultations provided by general hospital psychiatric departments for problems encountered in hospital wards, “acute psychiatric services,” “walk-in clinics”—call them what you will—have mushroomed in the past decade partly as a response to a growing need for emergency care and partly under the stimulus of the ...
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