introduction : pre-hospital emergency systems provide service by franco-german and anglo american models. this study was carried out to compare the iranian emergency medical service (ems) with the two models regarding timing and equipment. methods : in this cross sectional study, response time, scene time, and transport time to hospital as well as ambulance equipment of five hundred thousand te...

aims: the revised geneva score (rgs), a standardized clinical prediction rule for pulmonary embolism (pe), was recently developed. we have measured its predictive accuracy, performing an external retrospective validation in a cohort of emergency department (ed) patients, filtered by symptomatology and not by clinical suspicion, to allow its use in nursing practice.   methods: the clinical proba...

abstract background: hospital emergency ward plays a pivotal role in hospital and health care system regarding necessity of immediate,qualicative and effective performance due to numerous and complicated processes happens in the emergency ward. qfd is one of the most effective methods used for designing and improving the quality in order to fulfill customers' expectations and improve their...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the design of emergency departâ­ments regarding to the patients’ and staff's privacy, confidentiality and facilities in genâ­eral teaching hospitals. methods: emergency departments of all the general teaching hospitals of shahid beâ­heshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran were evaluated in 2007 through both direct observation and interview ...

introduction: timeliness has been considered as a key domain in quality of emergency department (ed) care and delay in care providing is influential determinants of patient’s outcomes. the present study, aimed to evaluate the determinants of prolonged ed length of stay (los). methods: in this cross-sectional study, using adopted version of the latest form for external evaluation and accreditati...

background: profile of acute poisonings varies from country to country depending on the ease of availability of substances and socio-economic condition of people; however, very little information from the united arab emirates (uae) have been published, so far. this study was designed to find out the most common causes of overdose and poisoning in patients admitted to the emergency department of...

the paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. the paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. the impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...