Background: The mean emergency department length of stay is an important indicator of the effectiveness of health services. It can be affected by several patient-related factors including gender, age, time of visit, main complaint, and allocated triage level. This study evaluated the relationships between these factors and emergency department length of stay. Methods: The present descriptive...

Background and aim: Having weakness and lethargy and feeling the need for hospital emergency services is one of the most important reasons for patients to go to hospital emergency rooms. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between morbidity and mortality of patients with weakness and lethargy. Method: The present study was conducted in an observational and prospect...

Background: Pneumothorax is a potential life-threatening condition especially in patients with underlying disorders. In this study we compared the diagnostic accuracy of general practitioners and emergency medicine specialists in interpreting chest x-rays (CXR) suspected of having iatrogenic pneumothorax in emergency departments. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Shahid Cham...

Background and Purpose: Anterior shoulder dislocation is the most common major joint dislocation. In most cases, this dislocation is being relocated in emergency departments. Routinely, pre and post reduction radiographs are performed. This study was done to determine the necessity of radiographs in the emergency department for management of patients with suspected anterior shoulder dislocati...

This research has tried to scrutinize an important issue that is Civil liability of physicians for emergency patients (under its comparative form) for the first time in our legal literature. To achieve this the civil liability of physicians for emergency patients is examined from two perspectives A)civil liability for doctors who refuse to treat or leave emergency rescue. B)Civil responsibility...

Abstract Introduction: The nursing workforce shortage or its inappropriate distribution is one of the major problems in hospitals. This study aimed to determine the optimum number of nurse staff in the emergency department of a teaching hospital. Method: This is a descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study. The study population included patients' medical records admitted to the emergency depa...

Introduction: The present study aimed to explore the effective resources in the emergency department and present an optimal combination of these resources using the Meta-Modeling optimization approach to reduce the waiting times for patients visiting emergency department. Methods: The research model was based on the Response Surface method and designed experiments. The dependent variable, the ...