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 +3 more
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Assessment of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care and its Associated Factors in Traumatic Patients in North of Iran [PDF]
Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, 2018 Objective: To determine the status of pre-hospital emergency care and its associated factors in traumatic patients.Methods: In across-sectional study, 577 traumatic patients who were transferred to Poursina hospital by EMS (Emergency Medical Services ...
Mina Mohseni +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Characteristics of Recurrent Visit of Emergency Department by Pediatric Patients [PDF]
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2014 Purpose Visit to the emergency department of the pediatric patients has increased steadily every year. The number of pediatric patients visiting the emergency department has increased steadily each year.
Jung Youn Kim +4 more
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Patient Safety Applications for Improving Health Care Quality [PDF]
, 2015 Patient safety is the fundamental thing that needs to be taken care of by medical staff when giving healthcare to patient especially in the Emergency Installation.
Jatmika, S. E. (Septian) +1 more
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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
Quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment score is not sensitive enough to predict 28-day mortality in emergency department patients with sepsis: a retrospective review [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019 Objective To test the hypothesis that the quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score, derived from vital signs taken during triage and recommended by current sepsis guidelines for screening patients with infections for organ dysfunction,
Kyung Su Kim +7 more
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Resuscitation Plus, 2021 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 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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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 +4 more
doaj +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 +37 more
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