OBJECTIVE To analyze patient satisfaction with nursing care received at a hospital emergency service. METHODOLOGY This is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The sample was composed by 250 patients over 18 years old who used an emergency service in the south region of Brazil. Data were collected using an identification form and the Patient Satisfaction Instrument. RESULTS Re...

BACKGROUND Primary care in the United States and most countries in Asia are provided by a variety of doctors. However, effectiveness of such diversified primary care in gate-keeping secondary medical services is unknown. This study aimed to evaluate health services utilization rates of hospital emergency and admission services among people who used different primary care doctors in Hong Kong. ...

The Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation, and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) was launched in 1994 as Akuttjournalen. From being a national, humble magazine directed to anaesthesiologists working in the Norwegian air ambulance service, the journal has developed to being a peer-reviewed, international journal directed at all health professionals involved in preand in-hospital emergency medi...

Understanding the characteristics of available influenza or influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance systems is important for seasonal influenza surveillance and pandemic preparedness. We compared five influenza or ILI data sources in Victoria: notifications of laboratory-confirmed influenza to the Victorian Department of Human Services; hospital emergency presentations and hospital admissions...

The performance of an Endoscopic Surgery Unit is studied with the purpose of identifying the best alternative for its operation that maximizes the number of procedures performed as well as the financial result, and helps in decongesting the Emergency Service of the hospital complex to which it belongs, offering the largest number of surgeries that can be derived from Emergency to the Unit.

OBJECTIVE Demand for ambulances is growing. Nevertheless, knowledge is limited regarding diagnoses and outcomes in patients receiving emergency ambulances. This study aims to examine time trends in diagnoses and mortality among patients transported with emergency ambulance to hospital. DESIGN Population-based cohort study with linkage of Danish national registries. SETTING The North Denmark...

You are making rounds in the hospital one Saturday morning when you receive a call from the emergency department saying a 68-year-old man is having chest pain, weakness, and "positive cardiac enzymes." His electrocardiogram (ECG) reading is reported as unremarkable. Because it is the weekend and no cardiology consultation is available at your hospital, the family medicine resident wants to know...

This is a descriptive study about the illness-absenteism process among workers in a large emergency hospital in the city of Belo Horizonte, in 2002. The illnessabsenteeism process was analyzed considering frequency, reason (DIC10), duration and risk, according to the different professions. The professional categories were: support, administration, nursing and medicine. The rate illness-absenteí...