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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"emergency room visits"”.
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Parental instruction regarding appropriate asthma management
… in terms of fewer asthmatic attacks, fewer emergency room visits, fewer hospitalizations, less school absenteeism, use of more non-routine medication, and fewer phone calls to the emergency room and the physician's office than those children whose parents did not receive the instruction. A …
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Uninsured Adult Working-Age Population in Tarrant County: Access, Cost of Care, and Health--Hispanic Immigrants
… problems getting needed healthcare, doctor visits, emergency room visits, overnight in the hospital, and obtaining prescription medication. Findings confirm that lack of coverage, competing needs, and difficulties in the health care system are significant in access health care. Subsequent …
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Perceptions of the Role of Social Workers in an Emergency Setting: An Ethnographic Study
Social Workers play a critical role in emergency medical settings and their presence has been associated with a decrease in inappropriate emergency room use, and with a reduction in initial and repeated emergency room visits related to psychosocial stressors. However, the discussion …
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Relationship between primary care access through free clinics and emergency room usage
… to care. The safety net system includes hospital emergency departments, federally qualified health centers, and community clinics. With the costs of health care rising, ways to utilize and maximize the effectiveness of safety net providers is critical. One way to conserve costs involves preventing …
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Food Insecure COPD Patients and Healthcare Utilization: A Retrospective Study
… remains high. Rates of hospital admissions and emergency room visits among chronic disease like COPD have become a targeted group for health management. COPD patients have multiple and complex health and social needs, but the impact of their unmet food needs is not well understood and warrants …
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Quality Improvement: An Update for Outpatient Oncology Education
… outcomes, and reduce unnecessary emergency room visits (Dalby, 2013; Mann, 2011; Smith et al., 2013). A rise in patient confidence for nausea and vomiting self-care, and when it is appropriate to call for provider help, is expected. After unforeseen delays with project …
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Increasing parental knowledge in treatment of childhood fever
… in this study is inappropriate parental usage of emergency treatment resources for the treatment of non-emergent childhood fevers. This study tested if providing direct and indirect information about childhood fever and its treatment resulted in a decrease of inappropriate emergency room visits …
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Nonemergency visits to the emergency room : revelations from the COVID era.
Emergency rooms ("ERs") in the United States ("US") must see all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Many uninsured patients that cannot pay for healthcare treatments tend to use ERs for primary care. This contributes to excessive healthcare costs in the US, financial challenges for …
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Improving Patient Medication Reconciliation Participation and Compliance Through Education
… be decreased, ultimately, reducing their risk of emergency room visits or even death. An educational pamphlet was created, distributed as well as a visual poster that was placed in the waiting room as a visual cue. After implementing the project, medication reconciliation compliance increased from …
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Addressing Barriers to Preventive Healthcare Access Through Community Outreach in Underserved Populations
… contribute to health disparities and reliance on emergency room services. Guided by the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) framework and the Health Belief Model (HBM), the project aims to enhance access to preventive care, improve health literacy and identify barriers to healthcare access.</p> …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
… monitoring), revealing how it is correlated to emergency visits and patient lifestyle satisfaction. I analyze predictors of emergency room visits and propose potential policies to reduce these ER visits through the use of advanced smart technologies. The third paper identifies the incidence and …
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COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN AGING COCAINE SMOKERS
… commonly reported illegal drug associated with emergency room visits among older adults. The combined effects of aging and long-term cocaine use may significantly impact cognitive function in aging cocaine smokers; however, there is relatively little literature on this matter. The purpose of …
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
… related disparities and decreased costs in emergency room visits. The results of my project yielded a 7% increase of those connected to healthcare, which is a 2% increase from the projected goal of 5% increase. My project reflects the “Butterfly Effect” of change that begins with one …
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Synthetic Studies Of Biologically Active Molecules: Irl 2500, Bruceantin, And Biliatresone
… to the tissues. CO poisoning causes ~50,000 emergency room visits per year. Treatments for CO poisoning are extremely limited. IRL 2500 is a small molecule allosteric effector of hemoglobin that has been shown to decrease the half-life of CO-bound hemoglobin (COHb). Herein we describe the …
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Management of breast cancer in the Medicaid population
… of healthcare use (inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room [ER] visits) and costs associated with the condition in the Medicaid population. Significant healthcare burden was observed as the all-cause inpatient, outpatient, and ER visits and the total all-cause costs were found to be …
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The Effect of Message Framing on Parents of Youth Athletes Attitudes Toward Messages Promoting Healthy Athletic Training Recommendations
… a high rate of injury necessitating 2.6 million emergency room visits each year (Merkel, 2013). Over half of these injuries incurred in youth sport are deemed overuse injuries (Valovich McLeod et al., 2011), which are a leading cause in the high attrition rate seen in youth athletics today …
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Attachment Style, Depression, and Health Outcomes among Antepartum Patients
… stress scores were significantly associated with emergency room visits in the past twelve months (F(1, 103) = 11.48, p < .001, partial η2 = .093) as well as with pain scores (F(1, 103) = 5.19, p = .025, partial η2 = .044). Thus, although attachment style is related to depression, stress was found …
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Identification of Novel Regulatory Genes in Acetaminophen Induced Hepatocyte Toxicity by a Genome-Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screen
… responsible for over 56,000 overdose-related emergency room visits annually. A long asymptomatic period and limited treatment options result in a high rate of liver failure, generally resulting in either organ transplant or mortality. The underlying molecular mechanisms of injury are not well …
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Effects of Acute Alcohol Exposure on Post Burn Intestinal Immunity: Role of IL-23
… These injuries result in approximately 500,000 emergency room visits and 40,000 hospitalizations annually. Greater than 50% of these injuries occur under the influence of alcohol/ethanol (EtOH) intoxication. Burn victims who sustain injury under the influence of EtOH exhibit significantly higher …
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Relations Between Infants with Single Ventricle Heart Disease, Access to Healthcare, and Survival in Rural Communities
… greater risk of dying. Birthweight and number of emergency room visits were protective, meaning those infants were more likely to survive. In the PHN data, of 281 infants, 227 survived, and 54 died. Of the 54 infants who died, 39 died after the Norwood procedure but before discharge home. A …
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