The detection of explosives and illicit material for the purposes of aviation security is an important area for preventing terrorism and smuggling. A number of di-erent methods of explosive detection have been developed in the past that can detect such material from a very small up to a very large quantity. For the purposes of aviation security, the checks are performed on passengers, their car...

Background According to The Danish Medical Association the 21 Danish emergency departments (EDs) have different organizational designs. Research shows that a 30% performance loss (i.e. quality of care and efficiency loss) can be attributed to organizational design. The aim of this study is to investigate the organizational design of Danish EDs and point to where the full potential of the EDs ma...

Introduction Lack of access to regular dental care often results in costly, oral health visits to EDs that could otherwise have been prevented or managed by a dentist (1). Most studies on oral health-related visits to EDs have used a wide range of classifications from different databases, but none have used syndromic surveillance data. The volume, frequency, and included details of syndromic da...

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The issue of overcrowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) has become a significant national problem.1-5 Several recent scientific studies have added documentation of the overcrowding problem.6-8 In addition, discussions with emergency physicians across the country and at national meetings indicate that this is a major problem.9-11 Many private, academic, and urban EDs in both large and small com...

This paper presents a comparison between traditional and automatic approaches for the extraction of an audio descriptor to recognize chord into classes. The traditional approach requires signal processing (SP) skills, constraining it to be used only by expert users. The Extractor Discovery System (EDS) [1] is a recent approach, which can also be useful for non expert users, since it intends to ...

OBJECTIVE This report describes hospital, community, and patient factors associated with emergency departments (EDs) whose case loads are driven by "safety-net" populations. The study also explores the relationship between safety-net burden and receipt of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Program funds. METHODS Linked data were analyzed from the 2000 National Hospital Ambulatory ...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders are common in multiple system atrophy (MSA), but the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is not well known. OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency and associations of EDS in MSA. DESIGN Survey of EDS in consecutive patients with MSA and comparison with patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and individuals without known neurologic disease. SETTING Twelve t...

Pressures related to emergency department (ED) overcrowding and cost containment make it increasingly important to characterize the patients we serve and analyze the work we do; but until recently, few EDs have been able to track or describe their case mix, care processes, workloads, utilization, efficiency or patient outcomes. Regional health authorities across Canada have identified electroni...

INTRODUCTION As millions of uninsured citizens who use emergency department (ED) services are now eligible for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the ED is ideally situated to facilitate linkage to insurance. Forty percent of U.S. EDs report having an insurance linkage program. This is the first national study to examine the characteristics of EDs that offer or do not offer these p...