A respiratory emergency room admissions monitoring system (RERAMS) was set up in Barcelona between 1985-1989, in order to investigate asthma epidemics in the city. Information on emergency room admissions for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was recorded daily from the four main hospitals of the city. The present study aims at assessing the reliability and coverage of thi...

abstract background: hospital emergency ward plays a pivotal role in hospital and health care system regarding necessity of immediate,qualicative and effective performance due to numerous and complicated processes happens in the emergency ward. qfd is one of the most effective methods used for designing and improving the quality in order to fulfill customers' expectations and improve their...

Improving productivity in emergency services and managing limited resources of emergency room(ER) are key challenges for health managers of oil industry. One critical and costly resource is ER personnel  and its lack can lead to long queue of patients. Thus appropriate scheduling for nurses and physicians can help ER managers to  get maximum benefit of their current human resource and reduce th...

background: vast majority of complaints and physical examination findings of hydatid disease are common in emergency room patients. different emergency presentations of hydatid cyst disease and their treatment are evaluated. we studied preoperative laboratory findings of these patients to identify any parameters to predict hydatid cyst-biliary system communication. methods: we reviewed the file...