The paper describes a methodology used for selecting the most relevant clinical features and for generating decision rules based on selected attributes from a medical data set with missing values. These rules will help emergency room (ER) medical personnel in triage (initial assessment) of children with an abdominal pain. Presented approach is based on rough set theory extended with the ability...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the management of asthma attacks in children up to five years of age treated in the pediatric emergency room of a hospital in the metropolitan area of the city of Recife, Brazil, as well as to determine whether the way in which asthma attacks are managed can influence the duration of emergency room visits for such children. METHODS A descriptive, exploratory study employ...

Emergency nurses are actively involved in primary, secondary, and tertiary pediatric injury prevention activities. This article outlines the steps that emergency nurses can take to identify common pediatric injuries treated in the Emergency Departments and integrate existing and evolving injury prevention resources into their repertoire of nursing skills. Research and demonstration projects con...

Computed tomography (CT) embedded in the emergency room has gained importance in the early diagnostic phase of trauma care. In 2011, we implemented a new trauma workflow concept with a sliding CT scanner system with interventional radiology features (IVR-CT) that allows CT examination and emergency therapeutic intervention without relocating the patient, which we call the Hybrid emergency room ...

Data were collected on all psychiatric referrals to 10 emergency rooms in New York State during a 72-hour period in early December 1988. Overall, 30 percent of the 362 cases were brought by the police while the 10 emergency room percentages referrals varied from 10 to 53 percent. As compared with nonpolice referrals, police cases were as likely to be rated by clinicians as currently having psyc...

This study is a bibliographic, descriptive, exploratory and qualitative research. The research took place in July August, 2021, the following databases: LILACS (Latin American Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), MEDLINE (Medical Analysis Retrieval System Online) BDENF (Bibliographic Database Specialized Nursing Area. descriptors were used: Nursing; Urgency; Emergency Assistance, according...

BACKGROUND To date, there are no valid statistics regarding the number of full time staff necessary for nursing care in emergency departments in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS Staff requirement calculations were performed using state-of-the art procedures which take both fluctuating patient volume and individual staff shortfall rates into consideration. In a longitudinal observational study, th...

S ince the days of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton, the scope of nursing (and its image) has changed. As Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), medical assistants, and many other allied health professionals enter nursing school and change the image of nursing, nursing faculty have been challenged to address the needs of these students. I interviewed some o...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to compare the levels of stress, depression, and intention to leave among clinical nurses employed in different medical units in relation to their demographic characteristics under the National Health Insurance (NHI) System in Taiwan. METHODS Cross-sectional Spearman's correlation, one-way ANOVA with Scheffe post hoc analysis tests, and multiple regressio...