Articles: hospital-emergency-service.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Evaluation of a brief intervention in an inner-city emergency department.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Introduction of the medical emergency team (MET) system: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Patients with cardiac arrests or who die in general wards have often received delayed or inadequate care. We investigated whether the medical emergency team (MET) system could reduce the incidence of cardiac arrests, unplanned admissions to intensive care units (ICU), and deaths. ⋯ The MET system greatly increases emergency team calling, but does not substantially affect the incidence of cardiac arrest, unplanned ICU admissions, or unexpected death.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Ultrasound-assisted paracentesis performed by emergency physicians vs the traditional technique: a prospective, randomized study.
To determine if emergency center ultrasound (ECUS) can be of value to emergency physicians in the evaluation of possible ascites and accompanying decisions to perform emergent paracentesis. ⋯ Ninety-five percent (P=.0003) of the patients who were randomized in the ECUS group and in whom a needle paracentesis was performed had ascitic fluid successfully obtained, as compared with the traditional method group.
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Case Reports Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention--a randomised controlled trial.
To determine the effectiveness of multifactorial intervention to prevent falls in cognitively intact older persons with recurrent falls. ⋯ Multifactorial intervention is effective at reducing the fall burden in cognitively intact older persons with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency, but does not reduce the proportion of subjects still falling.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Development and implementation of an emergency practitioner-performed brief intervention for hazardous and harmful drinkers in the emergency department.
1) To develop and teach a brief intervention (BI) for "hazardous and harmful" (HH) drinkers in the emergency department (ED); 2) to determine whether emergency practitioners (EPs) (faculty, residents, and physician associates) can demonstrate proficiency in the intervention; and 3) to determine whether it is feasible for EPs to perform the BI during routine clinical care. ⋯ A BNI for HH drinkers can be successfully developed for EPs. EPs can demonstrate proficiency in performing the BNI in routine ED clinical practice.