BACKGROUND Family physicians provide care in emergency departments, especially in rural areas; however, no published data describe how they perceive their preparation for emergency practice. We surveyed graduates of Colorado family practice residencies concerning their emergency medicine practice, their comfort working in emergency departments, and their perceived preparation for practicing eme...

Hospital emergency departments are a critical part of the U.S. health care system, providing the only guaranteed source of health care for the uninsured and offering around-the-clock health care access to everyone. In 2006, more than ten million visits were made to California hospital emergency departments. Heavy use of emergency departments, including use by patients seeking treatment for nonu...

background: interprofessional teamwork is considered as the key to improve the quality of patient management in critical settings such as trauma emergency departments, but it is not fully conceptualized in these areas to guide practice. the aim of this article is to explore interprofessional teamwork and its improvement strategies in trauma emergency departments. materials and methods: particip...

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Methods We accomplished three training courses with twelve participants attending course. The first two days were theoretical introductions and the third day was a practical exercise, where the theories and tools learned at the first two days were tested in a case-based full-scale simulation with debriefing afterwards. The simulation reflected different set-ups from a busy clinical day where th...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients and stricter requirements for quality and efficiency in the management of emergency patients have spurred several Norwegian emergency departments (EDs) to introduce triage as one of several measures. This introduction has taken place without any accompanying research. We therefore wanted to investigate the use and organisation of triage, as well as th...

Background and Objectives: Violence toward healthcare workers has emerged as an important health problem. This type of violence has the potential to severely influence healthcare workers, patients, and the community. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of violence in emergency departments, and to identify associated risk fac‌tors using a sample of emergency department healthcare workers ...