Background and Aim : Emergency ward is among hospital areas with high risk of errors, thus, implementing measures to identify and correct the errors is essential. The object of this study is to identify and assess the errors of the process of admitting patients in Emergency Department of Imam Reza Hospital using Failure Mode Effects Analysis, as one of the tools to assess and manage risk, as we...

background : coronary artery diseases are one of the causes of early death all over the world. in developed countries, ischemic heart disease is responsible for the half of the entire mortalities; however in developing countries it is estimated from 9 million deaths per year annually 32 percent of all deaths due to coronary artery disease. acute coronary syndromes are responsible for over 250,0...

OBJECTIVE To examine the daily bed requirements arising from the flow of emergency admissions to an acute hospital, to identify the implications of fluctuating and unpredictable demands for emergency admission for the management of hospital bed capacity, and to quantify the daily risk of insufficient capacity for patients requiring immediate admission. DESIGN Modelling of the dynamics of the ...

BACKGROUND Despite dedicated emergency theatre, emergency surgery can be often delayed due to competing urgencies, suggesting a need for innovative theatre time management. AIM To investigate if a change in the emergency theatre prioritisation affects outcomes for a common urgent operation such as appendicectomy. METHODS We prospectively recorded data from 67 patients undergoing appendicect...

BACKGROUND Rates of hospital admission are increasing, particularly among older people. Poor health behaviours cluster but their combined impact on risk of hospital admission among older people in the UK is unknown. METHODS 2997 community-dwelling men and women (aged 59-73) participated in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS). We scored (from 0 to 4) number of poor health behaviours engaged i...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk of emergency respiratory hospital admission during childhood associated with gestational age at birth and growth restriction in utero. METHODS The study included a total population electronic birth cohort with anonymized record-linkage of multiple health and administrative data sets. Participants were 318,613 children born in Wales, United Kingdom, between Ma...

BACKGROUND To assist physicians with difficult decisions about hospital admission for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presenting in the emergency department, we sought to identify clinical characteristics associated with serious adverse events. METHODS We conducted this prospective cohort study in 6 large Canadian academic emergency departments...

BACKGROUND Deliberate self-poisoning (DSP) is recognized as a major health problem worldwide with significant morbidity. After DSP, a substantial number of patients require intensive care unit (ICU) care, but little is known about how these patients differ from patients admitted to a general medical ward. METHODS From January 2001 to December 2002, all adult patients admitted to Soroka Univer...

OBJECTIVES Patients with advanced cancer are often admitted to hospital as emergency cases. This may not always be medically indicated. Study objectives were to register the reasons for the emergency admissions, to examine interventions performed during hospitalisation and self-reported symptom intensity at admission and discharge, and to assess patients' opinions about the admission. DESIGN ...

Emergency Department overcrowding with admitted inpatients is a common international occurrence. We undertook a retrospective review to compare patient admission rates from patients presenting to our Emergency Department with the level of overcrowding with admitted inpatients on that particular day in the Emergency Department. Over the 2-year study period there was no change in the rate or abso...