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The effect of rural hospital closures on emergency medical service response and transport times.

Health Services Research, 2020
OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of rural hospital closures on EMS response time (minutes between dispatch notifying unit and arriving at scene); transport time (minutes between unit leaving the scene and arriving at destination); and total activation ...
Katherine E. M. Miller, Hailey J James, G. M. Holmes, C. V. Van Houtven   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Patient satisfaction in the emergency department: a case of Sina hospital in Tabriz [PDF]

Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma, 2016
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, Farzad Rahmani, Behjat Derakhti, Fariba Abdollahi, Shahrad Tajoddini   +4 more
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If the machine says "Normal" on the ECG, can I put the patient in the waiting room?: a study on the reliability of ECG software classification

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, Omar T. Idrees, Ahmed L. AlManzalawi, Amro M. Tayeb, Thamer A. AlGhamdi, Anas Fouad Hamam   +5 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, Angelo de Medeiros Stevanato, Carolina Thomé N. M. Bragança, Leila Bernarda Donato Gottems, Gisele O’Dwyer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economies of Scale and Scope in Hospitals: An Empirical Study of Volume Spillovers [PDF]

, 2021
General hospitals across the world are becoming larger (i.e. admitting more patients each year) and more complex (i.e. offering a wider range of services to patients with more diverse care needs). Prior work suggests that an increase in patient volume in
Freeman, M, Savva, N, Scholtes, S
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Knowledge and Behavior of Visitors in the Prevention of Respiratory Tract Infections in an Emergency Service, Hospital

Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of emergency setting visitors’ knowledge and behavior patterns in relation to prevention of respiratory tract infections. Methods: A descriptive survey was used.
Myeong-Ji Jo, K. Moon, Eunsuk Lee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of a new regional air ambulance service on a large general hospital [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Helicopter air ambulance crews are influenced in their selection of the destination hospital for their patients by several factors including: distance from the scene; facilities, on site specialties, and senior cover of the receiving hospital;
Bleetman, A., Currie, A., Jenkinson, E.
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Analisis Kinerja Dan Budaya Mutu Di Igd RS PKU Muhammadiyah YOGYAKARTA II [PDF]

, 2013
Concern to quality service in nowadays becoming global issue that triggered by consciousness to give best service for patient or by request from eksternal side of hospital.
Pransisca, Y. (Yunita), Santosa, E. (Erwin)   +1 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2020
Objectives Following the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and the subsequent global spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), health systems and the populations who use them have faced ...
Rachel H. Mulholland, R. Wood, H. Stagg, C. Fischbacher, Jaime Villacampa, Colin Simpson, E. Vasileiou, C. McCowan, S. Stock, A. Docherty, L. Ritchie, U. Agrawal, C. Robertson, J. Murray, Fiona Mackenzie, A. Sheikh   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An observational study of patient characteristics associated with the mode of admission to acute stroke services in North East, England [PDF]

, 2013
Objective Effective provision of urgent stroke care relies upon admission to hospital by emergency ambulance and may involve pre-hospital redirection.
Antony Bayer, Christopher I. Price, CI Price, CS Kidwell, CS Kwok, D Kleindorfer, DA Quain, FI Mahoney, G Saposnik, Gary A. Ford, H Kamel, Helen Rodgers, HJ Audebert, I Mosley, J Harbison, Jay Duckett, JE Bray, JE Bray, JI Spark, JM Kerns, JM Wardlaw, Joanne Gray, Karen Portas, MM Rymer, N Nagaraja, NU Weir, Peter McMeekin, PU Heuschmann, R Bonita, R Mikulík, Ruth Wood, S Abilleira, SC Cramer, TN Turan, Victoria Rae, Y Teuschl, YM Mohammad, YS Kim   +37 more
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