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Showing 1 to 20 of 397 for “"emergency department"”.
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Debriefing in the Emergency Department
<p>Emergency Department (ED) staff are repeatedly exposed to high stress situations and as a result suffer from compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, burnout and high turnover rates. Staff turnover is costly to the health system in the form of …
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Moral Implications of Emergency Department Crowding
Emergency Department (ED) crowding, defined as "an extreme volume of patients in ED treatment areas, forcing the ED to operate beyond its capacity" has become a public health crisis in the United States. ED crowding can lead to compromised care which threatens the moral values medicine has been …
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Pregnancy Loss in the Emergency Department
… for patients experiencing pregnancy loss in the emergency department (ED). Objectives are to enhance understanding of staff about the patients’ experience and their knowledge on how to best care for emotional needs, thus improving quality of patient care, work satisfaction, knowledge, confidence …
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Suicide Mortality of Emergency Department Patients
… psychological, sociocultural factors and emergency department (ED) care among discharged ED patients and describe the association of these variables with subsequent suicide mortality.</p> <p><strong>Rationale </strong>Identifying patients who are most at risk of suicide mortality post ED …
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Homeless High Users of the Emergency Department: Understanding the Relationship Between Life Stress and Emergency Department Use
Background: Patients who frequently use Emergency Department (ED) services are particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes and have high healthcare costs. Homeless high users have particularly complex healthcare needs and increased difficulty in using and accessing healthcare. To determine …
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Etiological Characterization of Emergency Department Acute Poisoning
… of this study is to conduct a review of emergency department (ED) poisonings to characterize its demographics and assess associated co-morbidities. The second objective is to explore correlation between personal history of diseases and poisonings. Predictors for poisonings and its …
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Emergency Department Use by Asian American Children
The purpose of this study was to compare emergency department (ED) utilization and treatment patterns of Asian American children with children from other racial/ethnic groups. A cross-sectional design was used to examine all visits by children under 18 years to two urban pediatric EDs between June …
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Cost accounting system for an emergency department
… address this cost measurement issue for BIDMC's Emergency Department (ED). The joint team developed a cost accounting model and implemented it as a software system. Using the resulting system as a ruler for measuring cost of each patient visit, the ED is now able to assess cost of each visit, …
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Emergency Department use: Why do patients choose the Emergency Department for medical care and how much does it really cost?
… services and the costs of delivering care in the Emergency Department (ED) in order to continue to provide health care in a sustainable manner. Objectives: To examine the reasons patients present to the ED, and to conduct a cost analysis to compare the costs of seeking care in the ED versus a …
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Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department Setting
… in order to implement appropriate treatment. Emergency departments (ED) are responsible for providing medical and surgical care to patients in need of immediate treatment upon arriving at hospitals. As such, EDs are a primary point of access for individuals immediately following a suicide …
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Admission Handoff Between Emergency Department and Inpatient Units
<p>When admitting a patient from the emergency department (ED) to an inpatient unit, a handoff report is conducted. There are many ways the ED nurse can go about delivering this report to the inpatient or floor nurse. Each ED nurse tends to this task in their own way, providing the information they …
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Impact of Improving Throughput in the Emergency Department
… was to evaluate the patient experience in the emergency department (ED) and in the inpatient setting while correlating increased throughput and patient outcomes at a suburban Acute Care facility in Ohio. The culture in the organization has lacked accountability and ownership of the patients. …
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Paediatric analgesia and sedation in the emergency department
… in 1979, and have since worked in many different Emergency Departments in South Africa, Namibia and the United Kingdom. In most Emergency Departments, medical personnel find it difficult to deal effectively and appropriately with pain and anxiety in the ill and injured child This perennial problem …
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Emergency department nurses knowledge of and attitudes toward parasuicide.
Aim. This descriptive study examined Ontario ED nurses' knowledge about, and attitudes towards, parasuicide. The phenomenon of nursing agency provided a useful framework to examine the relationships among the basic conditioning factors (age, gender, sociocultural orientation, clinical specialty, …
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Factors Influencing Quality of Emergency Department Nurse Shift Handover
… quality of nurse-to-nurse shift handover. The Emergency Department (ED) environment presents unique challenges for high quality handover communication as a result of unpredictability, increased volumes and rapid patient turnover. The purpose of this study was to test and refine a conceptual …
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Ethics in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Reviews and Reflections
The pediatric emergency department (PED) provides a unique environment to consider ethical issues faced in modern healthcare. Using a combination of personal reflections and a review of current literature, ethics within the PED is explored as it pertains to four categories: informed consent, health …
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Drug Use Incidence Recorded in a Midwestern Emergency Department
… use incidents in a midwestern hospital (MWH) emergency department and to compare some of that data with DAWN and MINIDAWN data from 1992. A retrospective review of 151 patient admissions to MWH emergency department with the diagnosis of drug abuse, drug overdose, or drug dependency during 1992 …
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Early Pregnancy Loss in the Emergency Department, 2006-2016
… early pregnancy loss (EPL) often present to the emergency department (ED), the burden of EPL on the ED is not well understood. We aimed to estimate the proportion of ED visits for EPL-related care and determine the characteristics associated with seeking care for EPL in the ED in a national …
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