In June 1999 an intercollegiate working party of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine (BAEM), British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), and Royal College of General Practitioners was established. Terms of reference were to review emergency services for c...

Objective: It was aimed to obtain a notion about the needed hospital bed capacity by analyzing number of hospitalizations and referrals from ER in this study.
 Material Method: This study is retrospective, analytical cross-sectional research. Patients admitted tertiary hospital’s adult emergency service 2018-2019, hospitalized, or referred another were analyzed.
 Results: Of patients,...

BACKGROUND Improving the organization of pre-hospital emergency to provide emergency medical services (EMS), as a part of health system, plays an important role in timely and properly response to incidents, as well as, reducing mortalities and disabilities. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the organizational determinants of emergency medical services in Iran and analyze their r...

Introduction Flat rates based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) are being introduced in a growing number of countries to remunerate acute inpatient treatment. In doing so, it will have to be decided – among other things – whether inpatient emergency services should be remunerated separately from the DRG flat rates or as part of them. Without separate remuneration, there may be a perception, or...

The need for Emergency Management continually grows as the population and exposure to catastrophic failures increase. The ability to offer appropriate services at these emergency situations can be tackled through group communication mechanisms. The entities involved in the group communication include people, organizations, events, locations and essential services. Cloud computing is a “as a ser...

background: long wait time interval in emergency department (ed) of hospitals, from the patients’ point of view in ed is a major problem causing patients’ dissatisfaction and may result increasing in patient morbidity and indirectly nurses dissatisfaction. evaluation of wait time intervals in ed and giving nursing feedback may improve the quality of services, as well as patient satisfaction. th...

Current System of Care Emergency Medical Services System Design Prehospital EMS systems have 3 major components: emergency medical dispatch, public safety (fire and law enforcement) first response, and EMS ambulance response. Each of these operates within a broader emergency care system, which includes acute care facilities and regionalized healthcare services. In most states, an EMS regulatory...

Large parts of the assigned spectrum is underutilized while the increasing number of wireless multimedia applications leads to spectrum scarcity. Cognitive Radio is an option to utilize non-used parts of the spectrum that actually are assigned to primary services. The benefits of Cognitive Radio are clear when used in emergency situations. Current emergency services rely much on the public netw...