Background. There are not too many studies that deal with the organizational commitment of emergency physicians. This commitment has been shown to impact organizational performance. The aim of this paper is to analyse the degree of commitment of the emergency physicians in Spanish public hospitals and the factors that may influence it. Method. Online survey using SurveyMonkey to emergency physi...

emergency physicians face numerous questions regarding proper management of patients and selection of the best laboratory test or imaging every day. knowledge on screening performance characteristics of the diagnostic tools used in this department plays an important role in finding the answers to these questions. we assessed these characteristics in the previous parts of educational article ser...

introduction: triage is one of the most important systems in patients prioritizing at the time of arrival to hospital. based on the severity of the injury and the need for treatment, this system manages patients in the least time which could lead to rotation of patients with high reliability and safety. currently, the most accepted method for triage is emergency severity index (esi) system, con...

OBJECTIVES Elbow injuries in children are a common presenting complaint to the emergency department. Although radiography is a valuable tool in the diagnosis of this injury, x-rays of the injured elbow are inherently difficult to interpret. As a result, comparison views of the uninjured arm have traditionally been recommended to provide an anatomically "normal" radiograph. Recent studies have q...

388 roviding quality emergency care in rural hospitals P low patient volumes can be cost prohibitive. Additionally, recruiting and retaining physicians in these rural areas is difficult. Mississippi, a mostly rural state, shares this nationwide problem: There simply are not enough Board Certified Emergency Medicine physicians to serve rural hospitals in the state. As a result, emergency departm...

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 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Nearly all emergency medicine residency programs provide some training in emergency physician-performed ultrasonography, but the extent of emergency physician-performed ultrasonography in community emergency departments (EDs) is not known. We seek to determine the state of ultrasonography in community EDs in terms of access to ultrasonography by other specialists and performance...