Emergency department patient 'dumping': an analysis of interhospital transfers to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, Tennessee.

Patient Satisfaction in Emergency Department at King Hussein Medical Center

Objective: To measure patient satisfaction in the Emergency Department, and to identify factors influencing the level of this satisfaction. Methods: The study was conducted on patients attending the Emergency Department at King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Jordan. A questionnaire was used to collect information on their demographic profile and patient satisfaction. The ethical requirements fo...

Patient satisfaction at the Medical Emergency department at Holbæk Hospital

Methods The group of persons to be included in the study were patients in medical reception and they were all medical patients, apart from patients who were very acute influenced and therefore could not participate. Patients received a questionnaire. In the questionnaire the patient considered the waiting time in medical reception and the nurses and doctors treatment of the individual patient. ...

The new emergency department at Baylor University Medical Center.

Resuscitating the physician-patient relationship: emergency department communication in an academic medical center.

STUDY OBJECTIVE We characterize communication in an urban, academic medical center emergency department (ED) with regard to the timing and nature of the medical history survey and physical examination and discharge instructions. METHODS Audiotaping and coding of 93 ED encounters (62 medical history surveys and physical examinations, 31 discharges) with a convenience sample of 24 emergency med...

Prediction of Daily Patient Numbers for a Regional Emergency Medical Center using Time Series Analysis

OBJECTIVES To develop and evaluate time series models to predict the daily number of patients visiting the Emergency Department (ED) of a Korean hospital. METHODS Data were collected from the hospital information system database. In order to develop a forecasting model, we used, 2 years of data from January 2007 to December 2008 data for the following 3 consecutive months were processed for v...