نتایج جستجو برای: emergency admission

تعداد نتایج: 201338  

2016
Jeffrey J. Guterman Scott R. Lundberg Geoffrey P. Scheib Sandra G. Gross-Schulman Mark J. Richman Chien-Ju Wang David A. Talan

INTRODUCTION Attending physician judgment is the traditional standard of care for emergency department (ED) admission decisions. The extent to which variability in admission decisions affect cost and quality is not well understood. We sought to determine the impact of variability in admission decisions on cost and quality. METHODS We performed a retrospective observational study of patients p...

2016
Emma Wallace Ronald McDowell Kathleen Bennett Tom Fahey Susan M Smith

OBJECTIVES Emergency admission is associated with the potential for adverse events in older people and risk prediction models are available to identify those at highest risk of admission. The aim of this study was to externally validate and compare the performance of the Probability of repeated admission (Pra) risk model and a modified version (incorporating a multimorbidity measure) in predict...

2012
Y Joseph Hwang Salimah Z Shariff Sonja Gandhi Ron Wald Edward Clark Jamie L Fleet Amit X Garg

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code N17x for acute kidney injury (AKI) in elderly patients in two settings: at presentation to the emergency department and at hospital admission. DESIGN A population-based retrospective validation study. SETTING Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from 2003 to 2010. PARTICIPANTS Elderly...

2016
Michael M. Dinh Saartje Berendsen Russell Kendall J. Bein Kris Rogers David Muscatello Richard Paoloni Jon Hayman Dane R. Chalkley Rebecca Ivers

BACKGROUND Disposition decisions are critical to the functioning of Emergency Departments. The objectives of the present study were to derive and internally validate a prediction model for inpatient admission from the Emergency Department to assist with triage, patient flow and clinical decision making. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of State-wide Emergency Department data in New S...

2016
Thomas E Cowling Matthew Harris Hilary Watt Michael Soljak Emma Richards Elinor Gunning Alex Bottle James Macinko Azeem Majeed

BACKGROUND The UK government is pursuing policies to improve primary care access, as many patients visit accident and emergency (A and E) departments after being unable to get suitable general practice appointments. Direct admission to hospital via a general practitioner (GP) averts A and E use, and may reduce total hospital costs. It could also enhance the continuity of information between GPs...

2016
Harry Comber Marianna De Camargo Cancela Trutz Haase Howard Johnson Linda Sharp Jonathan Pratschke

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate inequalities in survival for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of patient, social and process-of-care factors. METHODS All cases of NHL diagnosed in Ireland in 2004-2008 were included. Variables describing patient, cancer, stage and process of care were included in a discrete-time model of survi...

2012
Jack JM Ligtenberg Bas W Bens Jan C Ter Maaten

ICU mortality caught our eye: an interesting viewpoint article on preventable mortality by Dijkema and colleagues [1], and a research paper on the impact of ICU admission during morning rounds on mortality by de Souza and colleagues [2]. It appeared to us that an important factor to avoid preventable ICU deaths is not mentioned: the time period before the critically ill patient is finally admit...

Journal: :Pediatrics 2002
David W Johnson Carol Adair Rollin Brant Joanne Holmwood Ian Mitchell

OBJECTIVE It is uncertain whether pediatric and general emergency departments have different admitting practices regarding children with bronchiolitis. The objective of this study was to quantify the differences in admission practices between pediatric and general emergency departments of children with bronchiolitis in 1 North American metropolitan area, controlling for various factors such as ...

Journal: :international journal of applied behavioral sciences 0
moslem abolhassanzadeh ali reza shafiee-kandjani tabriz university of medical sciences nader shafiei narges beiraghi

abstract introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the therapeutic and adverse effects of haloperidol to the combination of haloperidol and promethazine (antipsychotic + antihistamine) for controlling patients with aggressive or violent behavior referred to psychiatric emergency rooms. methods: using a double-blind randomized controlled trial, 100 psychiatric patients admitted to emerg...

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