ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze factors associated with presenteeism in nursing workers sociodemographic variables, health and work conditions, productivity musculoskeletal symptoms. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study, 306 from hospital municipal emergency room Brazilian capital. The Stanford Presenteeism Scale, the Work Limitations Questionnaire, Nordic Musculoskel...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

Current research suggests that pain is a relatively common phenomenon with 60-90% of patients presenting to emergency departments reporting pain (e.g., chest pain, trauma, extremity fractures and migraine headache) that require treatment [Hogan, S.L., 2005. Patient satisfaction with pain management in the emergency department. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal 27(4), 284-294]. This article exp...

The purpose of this review was to summarize the findings of published reports that investigated quality-related outcomes and emergency department (ED) crowding. Of 276 data-based articles, 23 reported associations between patient outcomes and crowding. These articles were grouped into 3 categories: delay in treatment, decreased satisfaction, and increased mortality. Although these studies sugge...

In this paper, we show two approaches for capturing nursing interactions in a hospital: 1) finding nursing intervals from mobile sensors with accelerometers and audio on nurses, and 2) recognizing nurses’ entrance to a patient’s room from in-room sensors of bed, loudness, and illuminance sensors. For 1), we firstly detect the nurses’ entrance to the patient’s room by walking detection from acce...

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background: vast majority of complaints and physical examination findings of hydatid disease are common in emergency room patients. different emergency presentations of hydatid cyst disease and their treatment are evaluated. we studied preoperative laboratory findings of these patients to identify any parameters to predict hydatid cyst-biliary system communication. methods: we reviewed the file...

Acute chest pain in hypertensive patients presenting to the emergency room constitute a wide spectrum of life threatening conditions including an acute aortic dissection. Acute Aortic syndromes constitute uncommon but lethal identities, with high morbidity and mortality requiring a high index of suspicion, appropriate diagnostic tools and urgent line of management. The authors are reporting a c...

An indicator for emergency room performance is the ability to establish the correct diagnosis within the emergency room over the years. The authors chose to examine the non-congruence of Emergency Room diagnoses to that established after hospital stay for three selected years. A total of 8488 records were reviewed and all disparate diagnosis were recorded and categorized. Retrospective chart re...