INTRODUCTION We tested the effect of a brief disposition process intervention on residents' time to disposition and emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) in high acuity ED patients. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study design in a single teaching hospital where ED residents are responsible for administrative bed requests for patients. Enrollment was performed for intervention ...

objective: most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality.   methods: in th...

Effective triage is critical to mitigating the effect of increased volume by accurately determining patient acuity, need for resources, and establishing effective acuity-based prioritization. The purpose this retrospective study was determine whether historical EHR data can be extracted synthesized with clinical natural language processing (C-NLP) latest ML algorithms (KATE) produce highly accu...

Objective: Most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality....

Changes occurred in the patterns of utilization of emergency medical services during the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak. The purpose of this study was to analyze the patterns of adult and pediatric patients who visited the emergency department (ED) during the outbreak. This retrospective study was conducted by analyzing changes in the patterns of visits among adult and pediatr...

background hospital emergency departments (eds) are as barometers of the health care system. crowded eds threaten delivery of timely care. prolonged ed wait times reduce the quality of care and increase adverse and sometimes irreversible events. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the patients' waiting time at namazi and shahid faghihi hospitals in shiraz, iran. patients and m...