background: sixty-two percent of the young people between 16 to 24 years-old living in the catchment area of the study take 5 glasses and more in one occasion as compared to 45.8% in the entire france. previous studies showed that if the alcohol consumption starts earlier, the risk for alcohol dependence increases at the adult age. in some countries, the motivational intervention has been alrea...

Pankaj Arora, Anita Bhavnani, Tamorish Kole and Chris Curry Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Accident & Emergency Services, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India; and Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Western Australia...

BACKGROUND The impact of immigration on health services utilisation has been analysed by several studies performed in countries with lower levels of immigration than Spain. These studies indicate that health services utilisation is lower among the immigrant population than among the host population and that immigrants tend to use hospital emergency services at the expense of primary care. We ai...

In a pilot project sponsored by the California State Emergency Medical Services Authority, validated, verifiable criteria were developed for the vertical categorization of hospital emergency services in 11 different groupings of medical and surgical emergencies. We describe the development of an assessment process and categorization criteria to identify the most appropriate receiving facility f...

background: long wait time interval in emergency department (ed) of hospitals, from the patients’ point of view in ed is a major problem causing patients’ dissatisfaction and may result increasing in patient morbidity and indirectly nurses dissatisfaction. evaluation of wait time intervals in ed and giving nursing feedback may improve the quality of services, as well as patient satisfaction. th...

Hospital emergency services are closely connected to demographic issues and population changes. The methodology presented here helps to assess the effects of the forecasted demand changes on the nextyear emergency unit workloads. The objective of the study is to estimate the expected volume of emergency hospital services, as measured by the number and costs of medical procedures provided to pat...

Patient education in emergency departments faces complexities and challenges due to the wide variety of clinical care provided in this setting. Despite widespread recognition of the value and benefits of education, we frequently see that patient education in hospital emergency departments is less than optimal and that emergency departments are not employed as venues conducive to providing suita...

A1 Measuring the effectiveness of a novel CPRcard feedback device during simulated chest compressions by non-healthcare workers Alexander White*, Han Xian Ng, Wai Yee Ng, Eileen Kai Xin Ng, Stephanie Fook-Chong, Phek Hui Jade Kua, Marcus Eng Hock Ong Health Services Research, Division of Research, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore; London School of Medicine, London, UK; Unit for ...

background and purpose: the emergency severity index (esi) triage system has been recommended by the ministry of health to classify patients at emergency departments. this study aimed to assess the validity of esi system (version 4) in the emergency department of a teaching hospital. outcome measures were hospitalization, emergency department (ed) length of stay, resource consumption, in-hospit...

introduction: burns can be very destructive, and severely endanger the health and lives of humans. it maybe cause disability and even psychological trauma in individuals. . such an event can also lead to economic burden on victim’s families and society. the aim of our study is to evaluate epidemiology and outcome of burn patients referring to emergency department. methods: this is a cross-secti...