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Patients' attitudes to analgesics and expectations of emergency care : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2009
Alleviating pain and suffering has long been a goal of health professionals. Pain has been shown to be one of the leading reasons that patients present to emergency departments (ED) throughout the world and the use of analgesics in ED's has been ...
Lemow, Jolanda Jozefa
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Computer assisted assessment and advice for "non-serious" 999 ambulance service callers : the potential impact on ambulance despatch [PDF]

, 2003
Objective: To investigate the potential impact for ambulance services of telephone assessment and triage for callers who present with non-serious problems (Category C calls) as classified by ambulance service call takers.
Crouch, R., Dale, Jeremy, Foster, T., George, S., Glucksman, E., Hartley-Sharpe, C., Higgins, J., Hooper, R., Snooks, Helen, Williams, S.   +9 more
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Can social media provide early warning of retraction? Evidence from critical tweets identified by human annotation and large language models

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Timely detection of problematic research is essential for safeguarding scientific integrity. To explore whether social media commentary can serve as an early indicator of potentially problematic articles, this study analyzed 3815 tweets referencing 604 retracted articles and 3373 tweets referencing 668 comparable non‐retracted articles. Tweets
Er‐Te Zheng, Hui‐Zhen Fu, Mike Thelwall, Zhichao Fang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing prehospital triage: Web‐based tools for severity classification in prehospital care, prospective study in Northern Thailand

Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background Emergency medical services act as the frontline in patient care. They triage patients' severity and initial treatment and refer them to the proper hospital. Incorrect triage can lead to adverse outcomes. Objective The study's main objective is
Kawisara Chaimuang, Theerapon Tangsuwanaruk, Orawit Thinnukool, Parinya Tianwibool   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reliability and effectiveness of a 4-level emergency triage

Emergency Care Journal, 2008
Italian guidelines require a 4-level in hospital triage based on an acuity scale measurement, but they don’t suggest common guidelines neither which triage models to adopt. Thus each hospital developed own triage guidelines based on consensus. But,
Nicola Parenti, Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Diego Sangiorgi, Tiziano Lenzi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

IT-Supported Management of Mass Casualty Incidents: The e-Triage Project [PDF]

, 2011
Voice, analogue mobile radio, and paper have been successfully used for decades for coordination of emergencies and disasters, but although being simple and robust this approach cannot keep pace with today’s requirements any more.
Adler, Christine, Donner, Anton, Greiner-Mai, Thomas, Krüsmann, Marion, Mulero Chaves, Javier, Via Estrem, Àngels   +5 more
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A framework for the forensic investigation of unstructured email relationship data [PDF]

, 2011
Our continued reliance on email communications ensures that it remains a major source of evidence during a digital investigation. Emails comprise both structured and unstructured data.
Haggerty, J, Karran, A, Lamb, D, Taylor, M   +3 more
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Comparative analysis of the characteristics and trends of adverse drug reaction reports from patients in Japan and the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report database

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADR) after a product has reached the market is essential for drug safety. This study analysed patient ADR reports and compared them with reports from the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database to identify differences and trends.
Masami Tsuchiya, Ryohkan Funakoshi, Koichi Masuyama, Nariyasu Mano, Satoko Hori, Taku Obara   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristic target sign of the small intestine in a case of lupus enteritis

Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2022
Toshimasa Yamaguchi
doaj   +1 more source

Calibrating models in economic evaluation: a comparison of alternative measures of goodness of fit, parameter search strategies and convergence criteria.

, 2011
BACKGROUND: The importance of assessing the accuracy of health economic decision models is widely recognized. Many applied decision models (implicitly) assume that the process of identifying relevant values for a model's input parameters is sufficient to
Karnon, Jonathan, Vanni, Tazio
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