This study was conducted to assess the knowledge of family medicine providers and their attitudes towards emergency contraception in a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. A 21-item questionnaire containing the demographic profile of respondents and questions concerning knowledge of and attitudes towards emergency contraception was distributed among participants. In total, 45 interviews were...

INTRODUCTION France is facing a shortage of available physicians due to a greying population and the lack of a proportional increase in the formation of doctors. Emergency physicians are the medical system's first line of defence. METHODS The authors prepared a comprehensive questionnaire using established scales measuring various aspects of working conditions, satisfaction and health of sala...

The quality of pediatric emergency care may depend on the competence of the emergency department physicians. It is important to know whether parents and general pediatricians associate the quality of pediatric emergency care with the pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) training of the emergency department physicians. We designed the study to determine parental and pediatricians' opinion and expe...

Article history: Received 22 July 2014 Received in revised form 28 August 2014 Accepted 1 September 2014 Available online xxxx Objective: To assess recent national specialty trends in the use of diagnostic ultrasound (US) services in the Emergency Department (ED) setting. Methods:We searched aggregated 1998-2012Medicare Part B Master Files for ED diagnostic US studies, excluding cardiac and oph...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We seek to determine the amount and type of work-related violence experienced by Michigan attending emergency physicians. METHODS A mail survey of self-reported work-related violence exposure during the preceding 12 months was sent to randomly selected emergency physician members of the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians. Work-related violence was defined as verbal, phys...

Objective: Although many institutions in the United States have incorporated palliative care practices in their emergency departments, very little has occurred in Puerto Rico. Information regarding palliative care training of emergency medicine physicians in Puerto Rico is unclear and most physicians have poor or no access to palliative care services for their patients. This study explores the ...

Emergency physicians have used point-of-care ultrasonography since the 1990 s. Pediatric emergency medicine physicians have more recently adopted this technology. Point-of-care ultrasonography is used for various scenarios, particularly the evaluation of soft tissue infections or blunt abdominal trauma and procedural guidance. To date, there are no published statements from national organizatio...

TARGET AUDIENCE This CME activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses who manage children in an emergency department, office practice, or any setting where medications or vaccines are administered. Specialists including pediatricians, emergency physicians, family practitioners, allergists, pediatric emergency physicians, and pediatric intensivists will find this informat...