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Current state of antimicrobial stewardship in children’s hospital emergency departments [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) effectively optimize antibiotic use for inpatients; however, the extent of emergency department (ED) involvement in ASPs has not been described.
Dayan, Peter S, Gerber, Jeffrey S, Hersh, Adam L, Kuppermann, Nathan, May, Larissa, Mistry, Rakesh D, Newland, Jason G, Perman, Sarah M   +7 more
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Relevance of intra-hospital patient movements for the spread of healthcare-associated infections within hospitals - a mathematical modeling study.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2021
The aim of this study is to analyze patient movement patterns between hospital departments to derive the underlying intra-hospital movement network, and to assess if movement patterns differ between patients at high or low risk of colonization.
Hannan Tahir, Luis Eduardo López-Cortés, Axel Kola, Dafna Yahav, André Karch, Hanjue Xia, Johannes Horn, Konrad Sakowski, Monika J Piotrowska, Leonard Leibovici, Rafael T Mikolajczyk, Mirjam E Kretzschmar   +11 more
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The role of microbiology and pharmacy departments in the stewardship of antibiotic prescribing in European hospitals [PDF]

, 2007
This observational, cross-sectional study describes the role played by clinical microbiology and pharmacy departments in the stewardship of antibiotic prescribing in European hospitals.
Bruce, Julie, Cookson, Barry, Gould, I.M., Krcmery, Vladimir, MacKenzie, Fiona, Mollison, Jill, Monnet, Dominique L., van der Meer, Jos W.M.   +7 more
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Comparison of reorganized versus unaltered cardiology departments during the COVID-19 era: A subanalysis of the COV-HF-SIRIO 6 study

Cardiology Journal, 2023
Background: Since the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, numerous cardiology departments were reorganized to provide care for COVID-19 patients.
Małgorzata Ostrowska, Michał Kasprzak, Wioleta Stolarek, Klaudyna Grzelakowska, Jacek Kryś, Aldona Kubica, Piotr Adamski, Przemysław Podhajski, Eliano Pio Navarese, Edyta Anielska-Michalak, Oliwia Matuszewska-Brycht, Andrzej Curzytek, Aneta Dudek, Leszek Gromadziński, Paweł Grzelakowski, Leszek Kamiński, Andrzej Kleinrok, Marcin Kostkiewicz, Marek Koziński, Paweł Król, Tomasz Kulawik, Gleb Minczew, Marcin Mindykowski, Agnieszka Pawlak, Janusz Prokopczuk, Grzegorz Skonieczny, Bożena Sobkowicz, Sergiusz Sowiński, Sebastian Stankala, Paweł Szymański, Andrzej Wester, Przemysław Wilczewski, Stanisław Bartuś, Andrzej Budaj, Robert Gajda, Mariusz Gąsior, Marcin Gruchała, Jarosław Drożdż, Miłosz Jaguszewski, Piotr Jankowski, Jacek Legutko, Maciej Lesiak, Przemysław Leszek, Przemysław Mitkowski, Jadwiga Nessler, Anna Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, Agnieszka Tycińska, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Jarosław Kaźmierczak, Jacek Kubica   +49 more
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Appearance of Clostridium difficile infections in health care institutions in Slovakia and in the district of martin

Acta Medica Martiniana, 2018
Introduction: Decrease of nonspecific imunity in patients and the treatment with broad spectrum antibiotics form appropriate conditions for the appearance of medically severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) - enterocolitis that can have the ...
Novak M, Mazakova I, Sadlonova V, Cervenova T, Hudeckova H.   +4 more
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Facilitators and barriers to collaboration between pre-hospital emergency and emergency department in traffic accidents: a qualitative study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023
Background Death caused by traffic accidents is one of the major problems of health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Rapid handover of the traffic accident victims and proper collaboration between the pre-hospital and emergency departments ...
Hasan Jamshidi, Reza Khani Jazani, Ali Khani Jeihooni, Ahmad Alibabaei, Shahram Alamdari, Majid Najafi Kalyani   +5 more
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The impact of co-located NHS walk-in centres on emergency departments [PDF]

, 2007
Objectives: To determine the impact of establishing walk-in centres alongside emergency departments on attendance rates, visit duration, process, costs and outcome of care.
Chalder, Melanie, Cooke, Matthew (Professor of clinical systems design), Hollinghurst, Sandra, Montgomery, Alan, Munro, James F., Salisbury, Chris, Sharp, D. (Deborah)   +6 more
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Hospital-based alternatives to acute paediatric admission: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2005
Objective: To synthesise published evidence of the impacts of introducing hospital-based alternatives to acute paediatric admission. Design: Systematic review of studies of interventions published in English.
Ogilvie, D.
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Outcome of Poisoning and Associated Factors Among Patients Admitted at Referral Hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia, 2022: A Multicenter Retrospective Study

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2023
Gashachew Bayleyegn Reda,1 Hailemichael Kindie Abate,2 Hidja Mustofa Mekonnen,1 Agerie Zerihun Gared,1 Zerko Wako Beko2 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar ...
Reda GB, Abate HK, Mekonnen HM, Gared AZ, Beko ZW   +4 more
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A decision support system for demand and capacity modelling of an accident and emergency department [PDF]

, 2019
© 2019 Operational Research Society.Accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England have been struggling against severe capacity constraints. In addition, A&E demands have been increasing year on year. In this study, our aim was to develop a decision
Demir, Eren, Ordu, Muhammed, Tofallis, Christopher   +2 more
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