Introduction Food insecurity is a significant issue in the United States and is prevalent in emergency department (ED) patients. The purpose of this study was to report the novel use of an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) order for food resources, and to describe our initial institutional referral patterns after focused education and implementation of the order. Methods This was a r...

CONTEXT Although the use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) appears to be declining, data on the use of OMT in the emergency department (ED) are not available. OBJECTIVE To determine the quantity and characteristics of OMT performed in a single, community academic ED that houses an osteopathic emergency medicine residency. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING A sin...

introduction: today, many organizations attempt to fully develop in gradual evolution of their processes. pcmm is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities. this model is applied to continually increase people's ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the skills. in this study, pcmm was used to investigate organizational maturity needs in me...

introduction: due to the importance of electronic medical record (emr) in the quality of health care services, checking the readiness of hospitals to implement it is a vital step to define success or failure of the electronic medical record in the first place. the aim of this study was to evaluate the readiness of shiraz teaching hospitals to implement electronic medical record. method: this st...

perceptions of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession: a qualitative study    zamanzadeh v [1] , valizadeh l [2] *, nasiri kh [3]     received: 2 jul , 2013 accepted: 9 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims: nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. it seems that researches on ...

INTRODUCTION There is a lack of published evidence examining the quality of patient notes in African healthcare settings. We aim to examine the completeness of the orthopaedic inpatient notes and begin development of a formal audit framework in a large Tanzanian Hospital. METHODS A retrospective review of 155 orthopaedic inpatient notes at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) was condu...

The New South Wales Department of Health mandates that all patients be asked if they identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. This information is then recorded in the medical notes or electronic medical record, which is not easily viewed by staff. At our metropolitan teaching hospital, we introduced electronically visible identification of these patients and demonstrated how thi...