How Patients and Visitors to an Urban Emergency Department View Clinical Research

Brief Motivational Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young Patients in an Emergency Department: The AURAIA Research Study

Background: Sixty-two percent of the young people between 16 to 24 years-old living in the catchment area of the study take 5 glasses and more in one occasion as compared to 45.8% in the entire France. Previous studies showed that if the alcohol consumption starts earlier, the risk for alcohol dependence increases at the adult age. In some countries, the motivational intervention has been alrea...

How to Improve the Quality of Morning Report; Department of Internal Medicine, An action research

Background: Morning reports (MRs) are commonly used as an efficient technique in Medical Education. This study was intended to assess the developmental process following Iranian definable standards in the Internal Medicine Department, Imam Reza General Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. Methods: Following an initial one-month assessment through direct observation of morning reports held in Imam Reza Hosp...

The cost of overseas visitors to an inner city accident and emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To estimate, in a metropolitan accident and emergency (A&E) department, the annual cost of treating overseas visitors whose countries of origin do not have reciprocal arrangements with Britain. METHODS The study was retrospective. A 24 h period (00.01 h to 24.00 h inclusive) on consecutive days in consecutive weeks (that is, Monday in week 1, Tuesday in week 2, etc) was costed over ...

Doing Ethnography In An Urban Hospital Emergency Department Setting: Understanding How Culture Was Related To Emergency Physician Habitus

ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE HABITUS OF THE EMERGENCY PHYSICIANby RENADY HIGHTOWERDECEMBER 2010 Advisor: Dr. Andrea P. SankarMajor: AnthropologyDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This hospital ethnography focused on the relationship between culture andemergency physician habitus. The habitus of these physicians was defined as thoseroutine, patterned forms of behaviors and practices ...

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