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Store‐and‐Forward Teledermatological Collaboration Between Prisons and University Hospitals in Switzerland

JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Dermatological conditions are common but often undertreated, causing unnecessary suffering. Teledermatology offers remote consultations to improve access. Our study analyzed 140 consultations in 125 inmates, mostly male with skin type IV. Itching and pain were frequent symptoms; eczema and scabies were common diagnoses.
Thaadsajini Manivannan, Ephsona Shencoru, Julia Beck, Lukas Schramm, Naomi May Mueller, Elisabeth V. Goessinger, Ralph Braun, Christian Greis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions of Emergency Department Crowding in Pennsylvania

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: The state of emergency department (ED) crowding in Pennsylvania has not previously been reported.Methods: We assessed perceptions of ED crowding by surveying medical directors/chairs from Pennsylvania EDs in the spring of 2008.Results: A ...
Pines, Jesse M, Isserman, Joshua A, Kelly, John J   +2 more
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Emergencies in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery: An Analysis of Patients Presenting to Emergency Rooms in South-West Germany: A Bi-Center Study

Diseases
This study was designed to examine the changes in emergency room visits in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study included 11,277 patients who presented to a tertiary care hospital (ER) and an emergency practice ...
Stephan Wolpert, Nora Knoblich, Martin Holderried, Sven Becker, Thore Schade-Mann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Targeting urban malnutrition [PDF]

This article examines the degree to which child malnutrition, infectious disease, and mortality, as well as poverty, overcrowding, substandard housing, and lack of access to basic services, tend to concentrate in particularly disadvantaged neighborhoods ...
Morris, Saul Sutkover
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Prison? A question instead of a statement [PDF]

, 2018
The study concerns the prison space and tries to investigate the main issues related to the detention space and concerning the social, philosophical, territorial, spatial and sensorial aspects of ...
Agati, Natalia, Fiorentino, Olimpia, Olcuire, Serena   +2 more
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Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition as a predictor of mortality and prolonged hospitalization in emergency department patients: A prospective cohort study

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Early diagnosis of malnutrition is essential for rapid decision‐making regarding nutrition care to improve patient outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of malnutrition using the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria and to assess the association of GLIM with 1‐year mortality and length of hospital ...
Renata Wolf, Larissa Farinha Maffini, Johnny Galhano dos Santos, Camila Saueressig, Valesca Dall'Alba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and cost-effectiveness assessment of a model based on point-of-care testing for the improvement of the resolution of hospital emergencies

Advances in Laboratory Medicine
Emergency department (ED) crowding is a quality of care and financial problem. Among its causes are long length of stay in the ED (ED LoS). One of identified causes is prolonged Turnaround Time (TAT) for complementary tests, including laboratory tests ...
Jimenez-Barragan Marta, Leon-Justel Antonio, Sanchez-Mora Catalina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prison Conditions and Recidivism [PDF]

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of ...
Drago, Francesco, Galbiati, Roberto, Vertova, Pietro   +2 more
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Jailing Communities: The Impact of Jail Expansion and Effective Public Safety Strategies [PDF]

, 2008
Communities are bearing the cost of a massive explosion in the jail population which has nearly doubled in less than two decades, according to a report released by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI). The research found that jails are now warehousing more
Amanda Petteruti, Nastassia Walsh
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Robustness Assessment of Public Transport Networks in Various Graph Representations: Systematic Review, Decision Support, and Case Study

Networks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The analysis of certain properties of the underlying graph of a public transport network generates insights about the network's structure. Hereby, the choice of the graph representation depends on a trade‐off between complexity reduction and information preservation to adequately model a public transport network.
Michael Palk, Stefan Voß, Raka Jovanovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source