Emergency Department Initiatives to Improve the Public Health

Emergency department initiatives to improve the public health.

Each year, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Board of Emergency Medicine co-sponsor an educational session at the Association of ‘American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting. The 1997 session was entitled “Emergency Department Initiatives to Improve the Public Health,” and included presentations by 4 invited speakers: Dr. Le...

Developing targets for public health initiatives to improve palliative care

BACKGROUND Palliative Care is an approach that improves quality of life for patients and their families facing the problems associated with incurable life-threatening illness. In many countries, due to the rapidly ageing population, increasingly more people are suffering from serious chronic disease towards the end of life, making further development in palliative care a major public health cha...

Initiatives to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Public Spending:

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

Simulation and ABC to Improve the Performance of Emergency Department

This study aims at developing an Activity Based Costing (ABC) for the Emergency Department (ED) in a Jordanian hospital to determine associated costs and clarifies the financial practices inside ED rooms. For this purpose, simulation model is built for patients at the current ED activities and determine the costs for each room in ED. The total costs (JD), number of served patients, and profits ...