Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
A Cost-effectiveness Analysis Comparing a Clinical Decision Rule Versus Usual Care to Risk Stratify Children for Intraabdominal Injury After Blunt Torso Trauma.
Modelling implementation of a clinical decision rule to identify children at very low risk of significant intra-abdominal injury after blunt trauma:
- Saved on average US$55 per child.
- Avoided a CT scan in 1 in 10 children.
- Missed 1 in 2,000 intra-abdominal injuries requiring acute intervention.
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Multicenter Study
Developing Emergency Department-based Education About Emergency Contraception: Adolescent Preferences.
The objective was to identify adolescent preferences for emergency department (ED)-based education about emergency contraception. ⋯ Adolescents have specific preferences for how education about emergency contraception would best serve their needs. This information can inform clinicians as they work to improve adolescents' knowledge about pregnancy prevention and emergency contraception in particular.
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Multicenter Study
Generalizability of a Simple Approach for Predicting Hospital Admission From an Emergency Department.
The objective was to test the generalizability, across a range of hospital sizes and demographics, of a previously developed method for predicting and aggregating, in real time, the probabilities that emergency department (ED) patients will be admitted to a hospital inpatient unit. ⋯ The accuracy of regression models to predict ED patient admission likelihood was shown to be generalizable across hospitals of different sizes, populations, and administrative structures. Each hospital used a unique combination of predictive factors that may reflect these differences. This approach performed equally well when hospital staff coded patient data in real time versus the research team retrospectively.
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Observational Study
ST2 in Emergency Department Patients With Noncardiac Dyspnea.
Serum levels of soluble ST2, a member of the interleukin-1 receptor family, predict mortality in emergency department (ED) patients with dyspnea secondary to acute heart failure and acute coronary syndrome. Elevated levels of ST2 have also been described in pulmonary disease, but it is unclear if these are associated with adverse outcomes. The hypothesis for this study was that elevated ST2 levels would be associated with 180-day mortality and 180-day return ED visits or hospital readmission in patients presenting to the ED with noncardiac causes of dyspnea. ⋯ Patients with noncardiac dyspnea who died or required readmission to the hospital within 180 days had higher levels of ST2 compared with nonadmitted survivors. Further research into ST2 as a prognostic tool in pathologic processes not involving the heart, such as pulmonary disease, is warranted.
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Academic Emergency Medicine publishes selected peer-reviewed videos that present state-of-the-art research, practice, and evidence in the field of emergency medicine. These videos are referred to as peer-reviewed lectures (PeRLs). This commentary reviews considerations for creating, filming, and producing high-quality PeRLs videos.