objective: standardization of hospital emergency units is a major goal in developed countries to decrease the duration of patients stay in these units. the present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of long-term staying in an emergency ward. methods: in the present 2-month cross-sectional study, patients referring to the emergency ward of imam hossein hospital were assessed. the pa...

Materials and methods Between 2007 to 2008, 1611 elderly patients were admitted in our ER for traumatic injuries with moderate to severe prognosis. In our department there are an area of trauma with two Shock Rooms, where the Trauma Team evaluates clinical status and vital parameters using a “Trauma Complex table”. Survival probability (Ps) is evaluated by Triss (Trauma and Injury Severity Scor...

INTRODUCTION Emergency department observation units (EDOUs) are a valuable alternative to inpatient admissions for ED patients needing extended care. However, while the use of advanced imaging is becoming more common in the ED, there are no studies characterizing the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations in the EDOU. METHODS This institutional review board-approved, retrospecti...

Introduction. Accreditation has a long antecedence in western countries educational systems and its history of implementation is more than a century in a country such as United States of America. In European countries, also different activities have been implied throughout the accreditation and its implementation has become an essential. Now, in our country the experts also think of the accredi...