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Perception of nurses about the risk assessment of the low complexity non-referred user
Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 2020 The goal of this study was to assess the perceptions and behaviors of nurses who provide triage with risk assessment to low complexity non-referred patients.
Aline Buriola +3 more
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A Temporal Fusion Transformer for Long-term Explainable Prediction of Emergency Department Overcrowding [PDF]
, 2022 Emergency Departments (EDs) are a fundamental element of the Portuguese National Health Service, serving as an entry point for users with diverse and very serious medical problems. Due to the inherent characteristics of the ED; forecasting the number of patients using the services is particularly challenging.
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The impact of neighborhood deprivation on patients' unscheduled out-of-hours healthcare seeking behavior: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The use of unscheduled out of hours medical care is related to the social status of the patient. However, the social variance in the patient's preference for a hospital based versus a primary care based facility, and the impact of specific ...
Buylaert, Walter +5 more
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Scientific Electronic Archives, 2015 The study aimed to identify Integrative Review of the factors impeding the implementation of policies for Attention to Emergencies, focusing on pre-hospital care in northen MatoGrosso.
S. R. O. Maier +9 more
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Service Selection using Predictive Models and Monte-Carlo Tree Search [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 This article proposes a method for automated service selection to improve treatment efficacy and reduce re-hospitalization costs. A predictive model is developed using the National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) dataset to quantify the effect of care services on the risk of re-hospitalization.
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Considering the Risks and Costs of Solid Organ Xenotransplantation
Advanced Biology, EarlyView.This perspective discusses the rationale, risks, and costs of whole‐organ xenotransplantation. It considers alternative strategies to obviate the demand for transplants and optimize allotransplantation systems and practices that do not impose xenotransplantation's harms and risks, and whether they are the most ethical and effective means to increase ...
Catharine E. Krebs +5 more
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Evaluation of Pre-School (0-6) Age Group Trauma Patients Etiology
Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014 Objective: Trauma is one of the most important reasons of death in the pediatric age group. The aim of this study is to analyze the relation between the trauma type, trauma time, and the way of arrival to the hospital and to examine the causes of ...
Bahri Atlı +4 more
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Effects of screening and brief intervention on alcohol consumption in an emergency department [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2020 Objective Alcohol use is associated with high levels of morbidity and mortality. Alcohol problems are common in emergency departments (EDs). This study investigated the effect of screening and a new brief intervention (BI) protocol on alcohol consumption
Soo Chul Im, Duk Hee Lee
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PHP64 Reorganisation of Hospital Emergency Services: A Business Case for Quality Improvement [PDF]
, 2011 In Switzerland, emergency care has no gatekeeping system and emergency wards are increasingly overcrowded by walk-in patients. This leads to inefficient use of spezialised resources. Treatment costs are paid by public sources and, beyond some co-payment,
Brügger, U. +5 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Helicobacter pylori gastric infection is widespread and recurrency is common, fuelled by bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Therefore, specific and noninducing resistance alternative treatments are an urgent need. Taking advantage of this gastric pathogen auxotrophy for cholesterol, a “trojan horse” strategy for H.
Ana Sofia Pinho +6 more
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