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A Comparison in Hospitalization Rates Between a Community-Based Mobile Emergency Service and a Hospital-Based Emergency Service

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2002
Objectives: The aims of this study were to compare the rates of inpatient admission between a mobile community-based psychiatric emergency service and a hospital-based psychiatric emergency service, and to identify the clinical characteristics of consumers more likely to be admitted to hospital.
Malcolm, Hugo, Matthew, Smout, John, Bannister   +2 more
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[The utilization of a hospital emergency service].

Revista de sanidad e higiene publica, 1995
The use of the emergency room of a hospital during a year has been studied, in the last few years, the use of hospital emergency rooms has increased alarmingly, and a large number of patients come by their own initiative. With regard to this problem, we have considered it adequate to carry out this survey, in order to know the situation of hospital ...
M, Alonso Fernández, R, Hernández Mejía, F, del Busto Prado, A, Cueto Espinar   +3 more
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Reasons for hospitalization from a psychiatric emergency service

The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1974
The 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%).
G D, Hanson, H M, Babigian
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The crisis in United States hospital emergency services

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2011
PurposeEmergency 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.
Jeffrey P, Harrison, Emily D, Ferguson
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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 psychiatric services and emergency hospitalization].

Zhurnal nevropatologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952), 1991
Based on an analysis of hospitalization of mental patients in Krasnodar during the five-year period it has been demonstrated that despite the fact that the number of hospitalized patients generally decreased, the portion of the patients admitted to hospital via ambulance rose.
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Emergency-room service in hospitals

The American Journal of Surgery, 1959
J H, SCHNEEWIND, W H, COLE
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EMTALA and the Ethical Delivery of Hospital Emergency Services

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2006
This 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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Patient safety and hospital accident and emergency services

British Journal of Nursing, 2018
John Tingle, Associate Professor (Teaching and Scholarship), Nottingham Trent University, discusses a recent publication by the CQC and some court cases on hospital A&E services
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Categorization of a Community's Hospital Emergency Services

Occupational Health Nursing, 1972
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