Development of the Emergency Department Senior Abuse Identification (ED Senior AID) tool

Survey of attitudes of senior emergency physicians towards the introduction of emergency department ultrasound.

INTRODUCTION Emergency department ultrasound (EDU) is widely practised in the USA, Australia, parts of Europe, and Asia. EDU has been used in the UK since the late 1990s but as yet, few areas have established a practice. OBJECTIVES To assess the current climate of opinion with respect to the practice, constraints, and establishment of EDU among emergency department (ED) consultants on the isl...

Health emergency and disaster preparedness initiatives of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.

Accelerating the Development of Senior Systems Engineers

As more senior systems engineers are needed to handle the increasing complexity of contemporary systems, there is an increasing need to accelerate the development of these senior professionals. However, the process of efficiently developing a senior systems engineer is not well-understood. To compact this problem, the skill set needed by senior systems engineers continues to broaden as system c...

Reconceptualizing elder abuse: treating the disease of senior community exclusion.

This article focuses on the phenomenon of elder abuse, which is one of the paramount symptoms of the larger community's failure to address the social, medical, and legal needs of the senior populace. Although there have been multidisciplinary efforts to address this problem, they are not responsive to the needs of the senior population itself In response, the authors propose a model that takes ...

What to do about psychological distress in emergency department senior house officers?