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 ...

AIM FOR DATABASE Aim of the Danish database for acute and emergency hospital contacts (DDAEHC) is to monitor the quality of care for all unplanned hospital contacts in Denmark (acute and emergency contacts). STUDY POPULATION The DDAEHC is a nationwide registry that completely covers all acute and emergency somatic hospital visits at individual level regardless of presentation site, presenting...

introduction: pre-operative investigations for emergency surgical patients differ between centers. following established guidelines can reduce unnecessary investigation, cost of treatment and hospital stay. the present audit was carried out to evaluate the condition of doing pre-operative investigations for three common surgical emergencies compared to national institute for health and care exc...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the introduction of an intensive care unit-based medical emergency team, responding to hospital-wide preset criteria of physiologic instability, would decrease the rate of predefined adverse outcomes in patients having major surgery. DESIGN Prospective, controlled before-and-after trial. SETTING University-affiliated hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive patients a...

Can J Emerg Med 2003;5(5):343-7 These Recommendations were approved by the CAEP Board June 8, 2003. *Chief, Schwartz–Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; and Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. †Chief, Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PEI; and Associate Professor, Departmen...

BACKGROUND Patients under palliative care and in hospital-at-home services are frequently transferred to emergency departments. We set out to identify the reasons for these presentations to determine the proportion that might be avoidable. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study by assessment of patient files. We studied admissions to four emergency departments in an area of France (Puy-de...

introduction: several mechanisms were introduced as causes of serum creatinine phosphokinase (cpk) raise in intoxicated patients. this study aimed to assess the relationship between serum cpk level in the first 24 hours and baseline characteristics as well as outcomes of these patients. methods: this one year retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on all intoxicated patients, who wer...

background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. the present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in shahid madani hospital, in terms of compliance with mohme guideline, an...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to describe the site of ambulatory care visits for gynecologic conditions in the United States and to identify patient factors associated with the site of care for these conditions. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a national cross-sectional study using data from the 1995-1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. ...

BACKGROUND Some emergency admissions can be avoided if acute exacerbations of health problems are managed by the range of health services providing emergency and urgent care. AIM To identify system-wide factors explaining variation in age sex adjusted admission rates for conditions rich in avoidable admissions. DESIGN National ecological study. SETTING 152 emergency and urgent care system...