253 Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Emergency Department Patients With Ureterolithiasis and the Impact on Pain-Related Return Visits
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Adverse events in patients with return emergency department visits
OBJECTIVES This study describes the proportion of emergency department (ED) returns within 7 days due to adverse events, defined as adverse outcomes related to healthcare received. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING We used an electronically triggered adverse event surveillance system at a tertiary care ED from May to June 2010 to examine ED returns within 7 days of index visit. PAR...
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A persistent problem for emergency physicians is the patient who returns unscheduled to the emergency department with a problem that either has not improved or has worsened. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of revisits and the nature of the problems. All patients returning within 72 hours of their initial visit were entered into the study. The charts were evaluated for cl...
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INTRODUCTION Our study sought to examine the opioid analgesic (OA) prescribing decisions of emergency department (ED) providers who have themselves used OA therapeutically and those who have not. A second objective was to determine if OA prescribing decisions would differ based on the patient's relationship to the provider. METHODS We distributed an electronic survey to a random sample of ED ...
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BACKGROUND Socio-demographic factors are associated with increased emergency department (ED) use among patients with epilepsy. However, there has been limited spatial analysis of such visits. DESIGN AND METHODS California ED visit at the patient ZIP Code level were examined using Kulldorf's spatial scan statistic to identify clusters of increased risk for epilepsy-related visits. Logistic reg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0196-0644
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.08.211