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Casualty Departments
There have been considerable changes in every branch of medicine since the in' ception of the Health Act, and in no branch is this more obvious than in the casualty departments of our hospitals throughout the country. There are many reasons changes and some of the main ones are discussed under three main headings. Firstly the public have changed in their attitude to the hospitals. The nearby in...
متن کاملInappropriate use of casualty departments.
Sir, A survey of 100 attenders was undertaken at a north London casualty department which was experiencing problems owing to increasing numbers of attenders. Nineteen per cent of the patients had no knowledge of their doctor's surgery hours and 32% had no understanding of the emergency cover provided by the practice. Fifty per cent of the patients had made no prior attempt to contact their gene...
متن کاملVictims of assault attending casualty departments.
Victims of assault make up about 8% of all adult injury cases. The purpose of this study was to analyse the personal characteristics and injuries of 518 victims of assault (=case material) and 496 accidentally injured (=controls), selected at random in a large casualty department. The proportion of males was higher among the assault cases than among controls (76 vs. 61%). Assault victims were m...
متن کاملProblems in staffing of emergency departments.
PREVIOUS speakers have recounted most of the difficulties at present being experienced in the staffing of casualty departments and these have been further amplified in discussion. It would seem more valuable, rather than re-iterating these, to put forward some possible solutions and criticize some of the solutions suggested by others. Before a clear decision can be reached it will be necessary ...
متن کاملLong waits in NHS casualty departments.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5840.607-a