Articles: emergency-department.
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Letter Comparative Study
Chest pain unit: 4th generation troponin T versus high sensitivity troponin T.
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J. Med. Internet Res. · Sep 2013
Multicenter Study Observational StudyNew media use by patients who are homeless: the potential of mHealth to build connectivity.
Patients experiencing homelessness represent a disproportionate share of emergency department (ED) visits due to poor access to primary care and high levels of unmet health care needs. This is in part due to the difficulty of communicating and following up with patients who are experiencing homelessness. ⋯ This study is unique in its characterization of new media ownership and use among ED patients experiencing homelessness. New media is a powerful tool to connect patients experiencing homelessness to health care.
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Contemp Clin Trials · Sep 2013
Clinical TrialThe Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (ED-SAFE): method and design considerations.
Due to the concentration of individuals at-risk for suicide, an emergency department visit represents an opportune time for suicide risk screening and intervention. ⋯ While 'classic' randomized control trials (RCT) are typically selected over quasi-experimental designs, ethical and methodological issues may make an RCT a poor fit for complex interventions in an applied setting, such as the ED. ED-SAFE represents an innovative approach to examining the complex public health issue of suicide prevention through a multi-phase, quasi-experimental design embedded in 'real world' clinical settings.
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Drug and alcohol review · Sep 2013
Comparative StudyA comparison of methods to identify alcohol involvement in youth injury-related emergency department presentation data.
The study aims to compare methods for identifying alcohol involvement in injury-related emergency department (ED) presentation in Queensland youth, and explore alcohol terminology used in triage text. ⋯ ED data are useful sources of information for identification of high-risk sub-groups to target intervention opportunities, though it is not a reliable source of data for incidence or trend estimation in its current unstandardised form. Improving the accuracy and consistency of identification, documenting and coding of alcohol involvement at the point of data capture in the ED is the most desirable long-term approach to produce a more solid evidence base to support policy and practice in this field.