introduction: emergency department performance index (epi) greatly influences the function of other hospital’s units and also patient satisfaction. recently, the iranian ministry of health has defined specific national epi containing five indexes. in the present study, the performance indexes of emergency department (ed) in one educational hospital has been assessed before and after establishme...

The future of emergency care in the United States and the role that family physicians will play in that future is of concern to the AAFP. That concern led to the development of a policy on family physicians in emergency medicine, an AAFP position paper, and the formation of the Special Interest Group-Emergency Medicine (SIG-EM), which launched at the 2010 Scientifi c Assembly. According to the ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an increasingly common cardiac arrhythmia. Many patients with new onset or recurrent AF present to the emergency department and are subsequently admitted to the hospital and seen by cardiology specialists for follow up. In an attempt to address this high utilization of acute health care resources, reduce costs, and improve patient care, our institution instituted a c...

introduction this study determines the effect of prehospital time and advanced trauma life support interventions for trauma patients transported to an our trauma center. materials and methods this study was a retrospective study of trauma victims presenting to a trauma center in central iran by emergency medical services (ems) and hospitalized for more than 24 hours. demographic and injury char...

Colombia is an upper-middle-income country with a population of 45 million people and one of the best national healthcare and medical education systems in South America. However, its widely diverse and difficult terrains hinder healthcare delivery to rural areas, creating disparities in healthcare access and outcomes between the urban and rural settings. Currently, emergency medical care is ove...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to systematically evaluate the theses in the field of emergency medicine in Turkey and to determine whether they were published as a scientific paper. METHODS This is a retrospective observational study. Theses in the field of emergency medicine between 1998 and 2013 were browsed from the internet database of National Thesis Center (Council of Higher Educat...

Aim: We aimed to examine the similarity in brain computed tomography (CT) reports of emergency medicine and neurosurgery specialists. Material Methods: Patients who applied department underwent cranial CT traumatic non-traumatic conditions were analyzed retrospectively. The neurosurgeon specialists reviewed. radiologist's report was set as gold standard. All examinations performed independently...