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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"emergency department visits"”.
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Improving the patient’s emotional experience of emergency department visits
… States, there are a staggering 130 million ED visits each year (CDC and Prevention, 2013). There is no single specific user group for hospitals. Patients are young and old, come from every nationality and range in income and education. It is a place we all want to avoid, but almost every single …
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Reducing Annual Emergency Department Visits Through Improved Asthma Discharge Teaching
… exacerbations (Harper et al., 2015). Current emergency department (ED) ideology focuses on symptoms management, with little time spent on education, and virtually no attention paid to the home environment. Evidence shows that programs which incorporate home environmental assessments into …
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Geospatial analysis of preventable emergency department visits in Chicago, IL
The use of hospital emergency departments (EDs) for conditions considered treatable in a primary care setting (PCED conditions) has become an increasingly prevalent health care inefficiency in the United States, leading to suboptimal primary care, significant ED overcrowding, and substantially …
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Reducing Preventable Emergency Department Visits by Improving Patient Care Access to Primary Care
… care, continuity of care, and reduce preventable emergency department (ED) visits. The aim of this project is to reduce preventable ED visits by improving patient care access to primary care. Comparing preventable ED visit rates between patients with access to primary care against those without …
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Impact of the Implementation of Accountable Care Organizational Structure on Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
… of quality in pediatric asthma is the use of emergency department (ED) visits for acute asthma exacerbation. Patients with a well-understood asthma plan, education about rescue medications and with proper use of control medications should have little ED usage. The purpose of this …
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Reduction Of Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits Through An Ed-Initiated Advanced Care Program For Vulnerable Patients
… with ED overutilizers with four or more ED visits in a rolling calendar year, excluding those with private insurance in an assisted living or skilled nursing facility, or who have a primary behavioral health diagnosis or chief complaint. Background: Overutilizers of the emergency department …
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Implementing Change to Decrease the Emergency Department Visits for Pediatric Clients Referred to Mental Health Services
… an improvement intervention to decrease emergency department visits or psychiatric emergency services visit rates for pediatric clients receiving mental health services through the ambulatory clinic. The goal is to increase client safety by preventing harm to themselves or others and …
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Analysis of Hospital-Based Emergency Department Visits for Dental Care Services in the United States in 2008
… estimates and risk factors of hospital-based emergency department visits primarily attributed to dental complaints. The objective of this study is to provide estimates hospital- based emergency department visits of among working adults.</p> <p>The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, a …
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The Dual Continua Model of Mental Health and Mental Health Emergency Department Visits for Adolescents and Emerging Adults
… model, and odds of mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits over three years among adolescents and emerging adults in Ontario and Alberta. Furthermore, the moderating role of unmet mental health care needs was explored. Linked survey and administrative data were used to …
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Predictors Of Dental Opioid Analgesic Prescribing, Opioid Use And Dental Emergency Department Visits In The Mississippi Medicaid Population
… analgesics prescribing for non-ED dental related visits in the Mississippi Medicaid population, (2) to assess predictors of receiving opioid analgesics following non-ED dental related events among Mississippi Medicaid beneficiaries, and (3) to determine prevalence of opioid analgesic prescribing …
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Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions for Adult Cancer Patients Post Outpatient Chemotherapy: Does the Oncology Nurse Navigator Make a Difference?
… States and worldwide. Oncology related hospital visits account for over $88 billion annually; 35% of this cost is attributable to inpatient hospital stays even though most cancer treatments are given outpatient. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the Chemotherapy Measure …
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Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Pay-for-Performance Program: Impact on Prescribing Trends, Budget, and Patient Outcomes
… administering the program. Finally, we compared emergency department visits and hospitalizations for patients who sought care from participating and non-participating GIP clinics, also using GEE. Results Program participants had a non-statistically significant difference in GDR during the GIP. …
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Validation and Evaluation of Cortical and Full Skull Thickness Changes with Age and Sex
… for 30% of all injury related deaths seen from emergency department visits despite the lower injury occurrence rate of 5%. Furthermore the TBIs from MVCs resulted in the largest number of TBI-related deaths (31.8%). Although studies have been conducted analyzing TBI from blunt loading …
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Can participation in drug treatment courts reduce emergency department use? An evaluation.
… relationship between drug abuse and the use of emergency department services is considered. This study tests which participants’ characteristics predict successful completion of Durham’s Drug Treatment and Mental Health Court and if participation can reduce emergency department use. Results from …
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An examination of the effects of medicare part d on racial/ethnic disparities
… prescription drug cost, and prevalence of any emergency department visits between White and Hispanic seniors. However, it has little effect on disparities between White and African-American seniors. This dissertation finds that there still exist significant racial/ethnic disparities between …
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Sedentary time and hospitalization in Canada's middle-aged and older adults
… associated with lower odds of hospitalization. Emergency department visits were positively associated with ST in middle-aged males, while higher time in the Timed Up and Go test (worst fitness) was positively associated with all types of hospitalization in different groups. The associations …
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Simpatia and Negative Interpersonal Emotions in Continuity of Health Care
… decreased hospitalizations, decreased emergency department visits, and improved receipt of preventive services. Guided by Betancourt’s Integrative Model for the Study of Culture, Psychological Processes, and Health Behaviors, the aim of this research was to examine the role of cultural …
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Leveraging poison centers’ capabilities for homeland security
… presence, the daily provision of toxicologic emergency care and collaboration within the public health and emergency management arena, the nation’s poison centers are underutilized as a resource and as a partner for homeland security. The lack of utilization has clinical and monetary …
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Informatics Intervention for Self-Management of Pain after TBI
… (Taylor et al., 2017). The number of TBI related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths has increased over time and is currently about 2.8 million each year (Taylor et al., 2017). A prevalent and troublesome symptom following TBI is persistent pain, defined here as pain due to a …
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Assessing patient and caregiver intent to use mobile device videoconferencing for remote mechanically-ventilated patient management
… caregivers at home, helping them avoid expensive emergency department visits, hospitalization, and unnecessary or excessive treatments. Mobile device videoconferencing provides an effective capability for remote mechanically-ventilated patient management but must rely upon an unknown …
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