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Predicting Hospital Patients' Admission to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding

Prevalence of disease and complaints in homeless patients on admission to the Emergency Department at Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran from 2012 to 2018

Background and Aim: Homelessness is a social problem with various contributory factors. This undesirable phenomenon involves various sections of civil and law enforcement in the community. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of disease and other complaints in homeless patients on admission to the Emergency Department of Imam Hossein Hospital, Tehran, Iran from 2012 to 2018. Me...

A qualitative study exploring the factors influencing admission to hospital from the emergency department

OBJECTIVE The number of emergency admissions to hospital in England and Wales has risen sharply in recent years and is a matter of concern to clinicians, policy makers and patients alike. However, the factors that influence this decision are poorly understood. We aimed to ascertain how non-clinical factors can affect hospital admission rates. METHOD We conducted semistructured interviews with...

Generalizability of a simple approach for predicting hospital admission from an emergency department.

OBJECTIVES The objective was to test the generalizability, across a range of hospital sizes and demographics, of a previously developed method for predicting and aggregating, in real time, the probabilities that emergency department (ED) patients will be admitted to a hospital inpatient unit. METHODS Logistic regression models were developed that estimate inpatient admission probabilities of ...

Outcomes of patients with transient ischaemic attack after hospital admission or discharge from the emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes at 28 days and 1 year between patients admitted to hospital and those discharged after presenting to the emergency department (ED) with transient ischaemic attack (TIA). DESIGN AND SETTING All TIA presentations to EDs in a large metropolitan and rural region of Sydney and its surroundings, New South Wales, between 2001 and 2005 were extracted from state health de...