OBJECTIVES This report presents information on the use of electronic clinical systems to support patient care in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient settings. Percentages of hospital emergency and outpatient departments with electronic patient medical records and automated drug dispensing systems are presented by selected hospital characteristics for 2001-02. Percentages of ...

ore than one million Canadians are admitted to hospitals each year via emergency departments (EDs). The time that admitted patients waited in the ED for an in-patient bed following the decision to admit them is influenced by many factors including in-patient bed capacity, the size and staffing of EDs and hospitals, hospital operational patterns and changes in the demand for hospital services (B...

S : scientific #bd14 | big data conference 28 Dr Sankalp Khanna Research Scientist The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO Sankalp completed a PhD in 2010 looking at intelligent techniques to model and optimise the complex, dynamic and distributed processes of elective surgery scheduling. He is currently a Research Scientist at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. His research ...

The adequate management of severe pain in accident and emergency departments depends on knowledge of the pharmacology of analgesic drugs. To evaluate such a knowledge a study by questionnaire was conducted. Fourteen accident and emergency departments participated and one hundred senior house officers answered the questionnaire. A large percentage of the respondents would use an inappropriate ro...

The NHSWales chief is urging patients “not to clog up accident and emergency units,” the BBC recently reported. The story? Four fifths of patients using emergency departments didn’t need hospital admission or treatment. The inference? Such attendances were frivolous, entirely avoidable, or irresponsible. The Welsh “Choose Well” programme, reasonably enough, aims to steer patients to appropriate...

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. About 87% of all strokes are ischemic strokes. Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) cause similar symptoms, but the blockage of blood flow to the brain is temporary. However, about one-third of people who have a TIA will have a stroke within 1 year (3). Emergency departments play a critical role in the diagnosis and management of isc...