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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, Tahereh Khaleghdoust Mohammadi, Zahra Mohtasham-Amiri, Ehsan Kazemnejad, Morteza Rahbar Taramsari, Leila Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Demand for Hospital Emergency Services: Trends during the First Month of COVID-19 Response

Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2020
Introduction: Since December 2019, more than 925,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported worldwide, 8,251 cases in Portugal by the end of March. Previous studies related to the SARS pandemic showed a decrease up to 80% in the emergency care episodes ...
R. Santana, Joana Sousa, P. Soares, S. Lopes, Paulo Boto, J. Rocha   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What impact did a Paediatric Early Warning system have on emergency admissions to the paediatric intensive care unit? An observational cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Summary The ideology underpinning Paediatric Early Warning systems (PEWs) is that earlier recognition of deteriorating in-patients would improve clinical outcomes.
Carrol, E.D., Lane, S., Lisboa, P.J.G., McGrath, C., Sefton, G., Tume, Lyvonne Nicole   +5 more
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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, Sung Hyuk Choi, Young Hoon Yoon, Young Duck Cho, Sung-jun Park   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Retrospective evaluation of urological admissions to emergency service of a training and research hospital.

Turkish journal of urology, 2014
OBJECTIVE Many patients consult emergency services with urological complaints. The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiology, clinical presentation and treatments of urological emergency cases in a training and research hospital.
Ramazan Topaktaş, S. Altın, Cemil Aydın, Ali Akkoç, Yakup Yılmaz   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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), Rosyidah, R. (Rosyidah)   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Effects of a comprehensive reservation service for non-emergency registration on appointment registration rate, patient waiting time, patient satisfaction and outpatient volume in a tertiary hospital in China

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundIn China, a long waiting time for registration is a common occurrence in many tertiary hospitals. This study aimed to analyze the effects of a comprehensive reservation service for non-emergency registration on appointment registration rate ...
Wanhua Xie, Xiufeng Yang, Xiaojun Cao, Peiying Liu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Emergency ambulance service involvement with residential care homes in the support of older people with dementia : an observational study [PDF]

, 2014
© 2014 Amador et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
A Gruneir, A Gruneir, AC Bebbington, ACL Ong, C Girio-Fragkoulakis, C Goodman, Care Quality Commission, CE Stephens, Claire Goodman, Derek King, Elspeth Mathie, Ina Machen, J Beecham, JS Mitchell, L Carter, M Kirsebom, MA Becker, Natasha Elmore, NJ Nagelkerke, P Parsons, RJ Ackermann, S Godden, Sarah Amador, Steve Iliffe, T Quinn, ᅟ   +25 more
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Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January – December 2014)

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2018
BackgroundEvery year, about 1.2 million people die through road traffic crashes worldwide. Majority of these deaths occur in Africa where most of their emergency medical services are underdeveloped.
M. Mahama, E. Kenu, D. Bandoh, A. Zakariah   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early diagnosis of sepsis using an E-health application for a clinical early warning system outside of the intensive care unit: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Elderly and frail patients who are unable to call for help in case of vital distress can develop complications during their hospitalization. As a supplement to clinical monitoring by the nursing staff, these patients can also be monitored in ...
Daniel Aiham Ghazali, Philippe Kenway, Christophe Choquet, Enrique Casalino   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source