Background It has been discussed whether emergency departments (EDs) reduce hospital admissions or not, and if the high turnover of patients results in higher readmission rates. Region Zealand was one of the first regions in Denmark to establish EDs, where all the acute patients for the hospital should be received: Køge and Holbæk (no beds, doctors employed by and working only in the ED), Nykøb...

OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution and scope of nurse practitioner schemes in accident and emergency departments in England and Wales; to describe the caseloads of doctors and nurse practitioners on two representative days; and to estimate the number of patients managed by nurse practitioners in the year to 31 March 1991. DESIGN A postal survey of accident and emergency departments and a...

AIM To determine which specialty was performing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the emergency departments and to determine drug preferences of emergency physicians during RSI in Turkey. METHOD All emergency departments were contacted via e-mail, and the chiefs of the departments were requested to answer a survey consisting of six questions. Hospitals within the specified regions were selec...

516 www.pccmjournal.org June 2016 • Volume 17 • Number 6 Objectives: To compare the severity of illness and outcomes among children admitted to a children’s hospital PICU from referring emergency departments with and without access to a pediatric critical care telemedicine program. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Tertiary academic children’s hospital PICU. Patients: Pediatric patie...

OBJECTIVES To compare the severity of illness and outcomes among children admitted to a children's hospital PICU from referring emergency departments with and without access to a pediatric critical care telemedicine program. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary academic children's hospital PICU. PATIENTS Pediatric patients admitted directly to the PICU from referring emerge...