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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"Emergency Departments"”.
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Patient Flow Management in Emergency Departments
… control of patient flow through physicians in emergency departments (EDs), which have attracted many researchers' attention. Our work here seems to be the first model to quantitatively analyze the control of patient flow in an emergency department from a queueing theory perspective. Problem: In …
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Practising knowing in emergency departments : tracing the disciplinary and institutional complexities of working, learning and knowing in modern emergency departments
… examine ‘knowing in practice’ (Gherardi 2006) in emergency departments (EDs) and present a new conceptualisation of how knowing in practice is done. In particular, I examine how nurses and doctors draw on recognised disciplinary practices and adapt these in the institutional setting of the ED to …
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Workload tools used in emergency departments: A scoping review
… conduct a scoping review of existing research on emergency nurses’ use of workload tools in emergency departments. INTRODUCTION Recording the workload encountered by nurses working in emergency departments has been an area of concern for nurses, nursing unions and healthcare institutions, both …
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Developing contextual quality standards for emergency departments in Palestine
Background: Emergency departments (EDs) are crucial for delivering timely, life-saving care, particularly in low-resource and conflict-affected areas like Palestine. Palestinian hospitals face significant pressure in their EDs due to a heavy workload from routine injuries and those resulting from …
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Application of Modeling Methodologies to Improve an Emergency Departments Workflow
… complex and challenging to understand, and the emergency department (ED) serves as a bridge between outpatient and inpatient care. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 130 million people visited emergency rooms in the United States in 2018. The ED is composed of …
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A Queueing Theoretic Approach to Gridlock Prediction in Emergency Departments
When an emergency department (ED) decides that it is not going to be able to serve any more newly arriving patients, it declares "diversion". When an ED is on diversion, it suspends arrivals that can be controlled by forcing some or all of the incoming emergency medical system (EMS) transport units …
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Triage in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments
… Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments was undertaken to examine differences in practices between departments with and without designated triage nurses (TNs). One questionnaire surveyed 93 nurses in seven departments with TNs, a similar second questionnaire surveyed …
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Pre-hospital paediatric healthcare services in emergency departments: perspectives for optimisation /
… of pre-hospital pediatric healthcare services in emergency departments (EDs), service utilization determinants and directions for optimizing. Analyzing the Nacional Health Insurance information system's data of long-term ambulatory service utilization in EDs for children, the demographic and …
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Towards Dementia Friendly Emergency Departments: A mixed method exploratory study identifying opportunities to improve the quality and safety of care for people with dementia in emergency departments
… their carers, and the staff who provide care in emergency departments (ED) in the UK. This is a mixed methods study which used a national survey (N=403) followed by ED observation (32 hours) and qualitative interviews with health professionals (N=29), in an iterative and sequential design to …
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Examining patients’ satisfaction in Jordanian emergency departments through business process improvement implementation
… experience of patients in public hospitals’ emergency departments in Jordan. Based on data obtained from a questionnaire comprised of the validated SERVQUAL instrument and a new survey measuring patients’ ratings of the split-flow model implementation components, the dissertation concluded …
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Examining The Choice To Seek Non-Urgent Urinary Tract Infection Treatment At Emergency Departments
Problem statement: Non-urgent emergency department (ED) utilization leads to greater risk of ED overcrowding and potentially negative outcomes for patients. Increased understanding of why some patients continue to use EDs for non-urgent care despite the increasing availability of lower cost …
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Effective Design Features for the Management of Behavioral Health Patients In General Emergency Departments of Hospitals
… staff members perspectives of their existing Emergency Department (ED) and their ability to care appropriately for behavioral health patients within the environment. The study involved three rural hospitals in eastern Texas that may not always have the proper resources to care effectively for …
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THE MANAGEMENT OF TEMPORARY STAFF IN HEALTHCARE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS : IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT SAFETY AND SERVICE QUALITY
… explored the management of temporary staff in Emergency Departments (ED), analysing management perspectives at macro, meso and micro levels. The second studied the management of the launch of a Major Trauma Centre introducing a Consultant Resident On-Call for trauma, which required temporary …
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Brief interventions to address substance use in emergency departments in the Western Cape: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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A cross sectional study of procedural sedation in adults in emergency departments with full time clinicians in the Cape Town metropole
The aims of this study were to describe procedural sedation practice in EDs, with specific emphasis on facilities for PS, characteristics of clinicians performing PS, monitoring equipment and personnel, drug regimes, complications and clinician satisfaction with present PS practice. A second aim …
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Analgesic Use in U.S. Emergency Departments for Patients Reporting Moderate to Severe Pain: Diagnosis and Select Patient Characteristics Influencing Narcotic Analgesic Prescribing Practices
… study aims to examine the relationship between emergency department patient encounter characteristics and narcotic analgesic prescribing practices in order to determine what patient characteristics, if any, influence the decision to prescribe narcotics.Methods: Cross sectional data on patients …
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Reducing Non-urgent Utilization Of The Emergency Department By Self-pay Patients: Analysis Of The Impact Of A Community-wide Provider Network
… by decreasing non-urgent utilization of the emergency departments within a large, urban county. The literature on emergency department trends and interventions designed to decrease "inappropriate" or non-urgent use of the emergency departments was reviewed and links to relevant theoretical …
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Capnography : principles, applications and uses in trauma and emergencies
… use of capnography among medical personnel in emergency departments in the Western Cape; To assess the cost effectiveness of capnography in emergency departments; To make recommendations to emergency departments in the Western Cape on capnography.
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Evaluation of Differences Between Pediatric and General Emergency Departments in Rate of Admission and Resource Utilization for Visits by Children and Young Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions
… and charges between pediatric and general emergency departments for visits by children and young adults with complex chronic conditions Design: Cross-sectional study using data from the 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department SampleSetting: Stratified sample of U.S. hospital-based ED …
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