PURPOSE This case-control study was designed to determine whether adults who present to a primary care office with a chief complaint of headache have more reported symptoms of depression than adults presenting with other problems. METHODS Adult, English-speaking patients who presented to a primary care office with a chief complaint of headache were matched to adult patients of the same age an...

17. The use of NC DETECT ED data to examine heat-related illness 34. Utilization of Florida poison control data and Emergency Department chief complaint data to identify clusters of carbon monoxide poisoning P Mulay, S Watkins, and C Blackmore 35. Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks 37. Increased emergency department presentations for he...

Low back pain (LBP) is the most common chief complaint among patients in chiropractic offices, second to neck pain. Of those seeking professional care, 70% of patients will go to a primary care medical physician or a chiropractor. Even though most LBP is mechanical in origin, underlying pathology is a possibility. In rare cases, patients presenting with a chief complaint of LBP may have pain as...

History taking and clinical examination are the most important steps in the diagnosis and hence overall patient management in medicine, surgery and dentistry. The purpose of this study was to determine the history taking and clinical examination practices of dentists. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among two hundred randomly selected dentists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The ...

OBJECTIVES The authors examined the ability of emergency physicians (EPs) to recognize adverse drug-related events (ADREs) in elder patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). METHODS This was a prospective observational study of patients at least 65 years of age who presented to the ED. ADREs were identified using a validated, standardized scoring system. EP recognition of ADREs wa...

Introduction Timely access to Emergency Department (ED) Chief Complaint (CC) data, before the definitive diagnosis is established, allows for early outbreak detection and prompt response by public health officials.BioSense 2.0 is a cloud-based application that securely collects, tracks, and shares ED data from participating hospitals around the country. Denver Health (DH) is one of several Colo...