Articles: emergency-services.
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Nov 1993
ReviewRisk management and high-risk issues in emergency medicine.
Risk management in the emergency department is defined in this article. The health care professional should focus on the health and best interests of the patient.
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To determine the feasibility of immunizing unvaccinated elderly patients with influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in the emergency department. ⋯ The majority of elderly ED patients are not immunized adequately with influenza and pneumococcal vaccines as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most elderly patients will accept immunization with these vaccines as part of their ED care. These vaccines can be delivered effectively to elderly patients in the ED.
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Nov 1993
Police referral to psychiatric emergency services and its effect on disposition decisions.
Some clinicians and researchers have questioned the appropriateness of police referrals to psychiatric emergency services and have suggested that police exercise undue influence on hospital admission decisions. The purpose of this study was to test these assertions. ⋯ Police did not exercise undue influence on dispositions nor were the patients they brought in more "criminal" than others.
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Acute asthma is a very common medical emergency. Thus, a variety of measures are currently used to assess severity; most are logical and seem reasonably effective but have never been scientifically tested in a comprehensive manner. Additionally, simple brief measures are needed for greater specificity in describing variables and in assessing different aspects of asthma. ⋯ Finally, early response to treatment was the most important predictor of the patient outcome (r = 0.48, p < 0.00). In summary, the results of this study support the hypothesis that most of the subjective and objective measures utilized in the assessment of patients with acute adult asthma represent separate and nonoverlapping dimensions and provided a useful summary of acute asthma. Early response to treatment in combination with measures of the four identified factors could be included in other acute adult asthma research protocols promoting greater comparable among studies.
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One way for a hospital to increase revenue, improve the delivery of health care, and boost patient satisfaction is to develop new services as an adjunct to its emergency department. New service lines that treat emergency department patients quickly and efficiently and eliminate negative experiences patients often associate with emergency department visits can offer significant benefits to a hospital as well as its patients.