Documenting patient’s violent behavior by medical staff of hospital emergency departments

Hepatitis B vaccination: uptake by medical staff in accident and emergency departments.

To assess the current uptake of hepatitis B vaccine and attitudes towards immunization among accident and emergency practitioners in the UK, a postal survey was carried out. Questionnaires were sent to 742 members of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine (BAEM). Four hundred and six (55%) replies were received. Of 351 respondents in career-grade posts 309 (88%) had receive...

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges

Supervision and feedback for junior medical staff in Australian emergency departments: findings from the emergency medicine capacity assessment study

BACKGROUND Clinical supervision and feedback are important for the development of competency in junior doctors. This study aimed to determine the adequacy of supervision of junior medical staff in Australian emergency departments (EDs) and perceived feedback provided. METHODS Semi-structured telephone surveys sought quantitative and qualitative data from ED Directors, Directors of Emergency M...

Pre-Hospital Electrocardiography by Emergency Medical Personnel

Methods City of San Diego Emergency Medical System runsheets of patients with chest pain from January 2003 to April 2008 were analyzed. The scene times and transport times were compared before (from January 2003 to December 2005) and after (from January 2006 to April 2008) implementation of the PH ECG. Among patients with a PH ECG, median scene times and transport times were compared in patient...

Counseling patients and family members in out-of-hospital emergency situations: a survey for emergency staff

BACKGROUND Not much is known about emergency care delivered in patients' homes or other out-of-hospital settings. This study aims to describe out-of-hospital emergency staff's experiences of encountering and counseling patients and their family members. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was applied. Data were collected from a hospital district in Finland from emergency care staff v...