OBJECTIVE To verify agreement between estimative of predicted resources using the adapted Emergency Severity Index and the real amount of resources used by patients. To analyze the variables number of years since graduation, years of work experience and years of experience in emergency services especially with accurate anticipation of resources need. METHODS This retrospective analytical stud...

AIMS To assess the construct validity of the incontinence severity index (ISI) by testing its correlation with two health-related quality of life measures, the short forms of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) and the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire (IIQ-7), in women with urodynamic stress incontinence. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cohort of 170 women with the urodynamic stress incontinen...

This study addressed self-blame and adaptation by using data collected from 49 patients hospitalized for the treatment of acute burn wounds. Nurses and physical therapists rated patients' compliance with the therapeutic activities essential for proper healing, and they rated pain behavior. After controlling for burn severity and time since admission, regression analyses showed that behavioral s...

Method Data was collected for patients coming to the emergency department of PESIMSR, Kuppam with the history of road traffic accidents. The study was a descriptive study with prospectve sampling durng the period from October 2012 to April 2014. Data were collected as per the Performadate and time of accident, date and time of arrival to emergency department, age, sex, education, place of accid...

Using a self-administered alcohol-related questionnaire and the clinical records a survey was made of the prevalence and severity of alcohol-related problems in the accident and emergency department at the Belfast City Hospital. Of 10,410 consecutive attendances during three months, 6,625 completed a questionnaire: 4,349 admitted they took alcohol at some time, 906 men exceeded 21 units weekly,...

The purpose of this study was: (1) to propose a classification system for the contributory factors behind major coach and bus accidents with mass casualties based on human factor analysis (HFACS); (2) identify main indicators causal factors. Based 56 official investigation reports more than 10 fatalities, qualitative content was conducted develop modified these accidents, gray correlation causa...

Traffic accidents can be thought of as being the whole combination events that usually occur due to reasons caused by humans, vehicles, roadway, and environment, which are basic elements transportation, these most likely result in injuries, death, huge financial damage. In this study, making use a dataset, received from New Zealand Transportation Agency, it is estimated whether or not traffic o...

In this paper, the principal concepts of the energy flow/barrier analysis are used to define an accident as a series of events including failure of the control and protective barriers, which results exposure of a target to a hazardous agent. “Barrier structure” is introduced, as a combination of serial and parallel barriers, to calculate the severity of risks of accidents. It is defined for eac...