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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"emergency departments (EDs)"”.
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Non-Urgent Emergency Department Use: Exploring the Perceptions, Emotions, and Behaviours of Emergency Healthcare Providers
Many individuals seek care at emergency departments (EDs) for health concerns that could be managed in non-ED settings. ED healthcare providers (HCPs) often describe these visits as non-urgent. While previous research explored non-urgent ED use from the patient perspective, less is known about how …
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Cracks in the System: The Gap between the Emergency Department and Primary Care
… legal right to obtain stabilizing treatment for emergency medical conditions, but many depend on the nation’s Emergency Departments (EDs) for more routine care. Patients who lack access to adequate primary care often seek treatment in the ED because they have no other options. As the PPACA is …
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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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The Role of Social Support and Spiritual Care in Numbers of ED Visits
… burden on hospitals across the country as their emergency departments (EDs) serve as a health care safety net. While there are a number of medical crises that bring people to ERs, up to more than half of visits to the emergency room may be considered non-urgent. As such, there is a pressing need …
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FNP led Mobile Health Services for the Homeless population
… leading increased utilization of hospitals and emergency departments (EDs) services. Many of these events are preventable through improved primary care interventions. The literature on Respite/Recuperative Care, Transitional Care, and Mobile Health interventions have shown effectiveness in …
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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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The Influence of Federally Qualified Health Centers on Selected Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Georgia
… that can lead to hospitalization. The use of emergency departments (EDs) as a safety net for ACSCs has increased the burden on hospitals because patients who do not regularly utilize primary care often resort to the use of EDs for treatment of ACSCs. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) …
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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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A Test of the Behavioral Model of Health Services Use on Non-Emergent Emergency Department Use
<p>Even though emergency departments (EDs) were created to treat trauma and emergent cases, there has been an increase in emergency department (ED) utilization for non-emergent reasons over the past half of a century. As non-emergent utilization grows as a result of the ED becoming a prevalent …
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The Role of System-Level Primary Care Characteristics and Immigration Status as Predictors of Non-Urgent Emergency Department Presentations
… Despite this, patients commonly present to emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent conditions, especially with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). This leads to poor patient health outcomes and greater healthcare system costs. Immigrants also use EDs non-urgently at a greater rate …
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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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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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How can we best support registered nurses transitioning into emergency nursing?
One in four New Zealanders attend the emergency department, in New Zealand, each year. The emergency department is a dynamic and challenging environment, which requires nurses to have advanced assessment skills and clinical-reasoning. There is no universal approach in New Zealand to supporting …
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Nurses' experiences and decision making at triage when women with miscarriage present to the Emergency Department
The emergency department (ED) is a fast paced, chaotic environment with patients presenting sometimes simultaneously, requiring assessment and treatment. The role of the triage nurse in New Zealand is to made quick decisions using a triage scale, currently the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS), to …
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What’s going on? How do New Zealand emergency nurses cope with the occupational stress that is associated working in the emergency department?
… what factors influence stress levels amongst emergency nurses in New Zealand. BACKGROUND International studies suggest that increased workloads, organisational culture and health determinants impact on the working environment for nurses in the emergency department. This position however, has …
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What are the information needs of patients receiving procedural sedation in the Emergency Department? A descriptive exploratory study
… patients undergoing procedural sedation in the Emergency Department setting?’ Providing sedation to perform painful procedures on patients in the hospital Emergency Department (ED) setting has become commonplace in recent years. Best practice guidelines address minimal staffing levels, staff …
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What are the barriers and enablers to emergency department nurses' management of patients' pain?
… Pain is the most common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED) and ranked as the highest reason for seeking emergency care. Patients expect rapid pain relief when presenting to the ED and this expectation is often not met in many EDs worldwide resulting in oligoanalgesia; the …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… community health centers on the utilization of emergency rooms in California, in 2006-2010. In the second chapter, I study the San Francisco healthcare reform of 2007-2008. And in the third chapter, I analyze California's Nonprofit Integrity Act of 2004 and its impact on governance and revenue …
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Management of patients on chemotherapeutic treatment for advanced cancer with acute conditions in the Emergency Department
… hours and urgent care is provided by the local Emergency Department (ED). There is evidence to suggest cancer patients on chemotherapy are clinically high risk, presenting more frequently to the ED and with more complex clinical needs than the general population. This study sought to answer the …
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Discharge planning at a regional New Zealand hospital Emergency Department: Screening elderly patients for early multidisciplinary team referral using the Elders Risk Assessment Index
BACKGROUND Emergency nursing is a specialty concerned with the care of patients across the lifespan. Research has shown sixty per cent of presentations to the Emergency Department (ED) are not emergency presentations; they are classed as semi or non-urgent and are discharged home. Research also …