OBJECTIVE To identify key stressors for emergency department (ED) staff, investigate positive and negative behaviours associated with working under pressure and consider interventions that may improve how the ED team functions. METHODS This was a qualitative study involving semistructured interviews. Data were collected from staff working in the ED of a London teaching hospital. A purposive s...

BACKGROUND The cooperation of patients and their acceptance to involve medical students in their care is vital to clinical education. OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of patients towards medical students at University charity teaching hospital, and to explore the determinants of those attitudes. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at University charity teaching hospital affil...

OBJECTIVE Physicians have been surveyed concerning their satisfaction with poison center services but have never been questioned regarding their expectations. This study was conducted to clarify the expectations of emergency physicians in New Mexico regarding the service of their regional poison center, the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center. DESIGN Five New Mexico emergency depart...

Methods The study design was a survey, utilizing a phone questionnaire. 70 consecutively presenting patients undergoing 15 day surgery procedures in an Irish teaching hospital were invited to participate. Data collection was completed between June and July 2011. The survey evaluated 57 aspects of the DS process. Patients were asked to rate their level of satisfaction using a 5-point LIKERT scal...

www.ums.ac.uk Dr Michael McBride is the new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Northern Ireland. A graduate of Queens University Belfast Medical School, he also trained in St Mary’s at Imperial College London. His specialist interest in HIV/AIDS suggested early on in his career that he was not afraid of working in a challenging and ever changing field. I met with him to discuss his vision of the N...

Unfortunately, some medical device manufacturers, particularly those based outside the United States (US) are unaware of the business implications of submitting a 510(k) premarket notification to the US Food and Drug Administration. This article discusses information regarding the ownership and other business related aspects of filing a 510(k).

BACKGROUND Emergency medical dispatching should be as accurate as possible in order to ensure patient safety and optimize the use of ambulance resources. This study aimed to compare the accuracy, measured as priority level, between two Swedish dispatch protocols - the three-graded priority protocol Medical Index and a newly developed prototype, the four-graded priority protocol, RETTS-A. METH...

Address: 1Consultant Surgeon, General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery DPT, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy and 2Chief, Trauma Services, Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center at Denver Health Medical Center Chief, Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical, Center Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,...

1Department of Radiology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy 3Department of Hematology/Oncology and Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 4Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School and University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA,...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the ability of parents to recall the injuries of their children. DESIGN Comparison of parent recall with computerized medical records. SETTING A health maintenance organization in Washington State during 2003. SUBJECTS Parents of children younger than 6 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The ratio of recalled injuries to injuries in computerized data. RESULTS Telephone...