conclusions emergency medical services should be considered as a system with its independent components. establishing an independent ems organization, integrating pre-hospital and hospital emergency under single supervision and management, as well as, extending the possibility of providing ems through private sector are essential in order to make fundamental reforms in providing emergency medic...

1 School of Pharmacy, Section of Experimental Medicine, University of Camerino, P.zza dei Costanti, 63032, Camerino, Macerata, Italy; E-Mails: [email protected] (S.L.); [email protected] (M.B.M.); [email protected] (C.A.); [email protected] (V.F.); [email protected] (M.N.); [email protected] (G.S.) 2 Department of Molecular Medicine, Sa...

Cancer, fertility and pregnancy: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up G. Pentheroudakis, R. Orecchia, H. J. Hoekstra & N. Pavlidis On behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Department of Medical Oncology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece; Department of Radiation Oncology, European Institute of Oncology and University of Milan, Milan, Italy...

OBJECTIVES One marker of quality emergency medical services care is measured by meeting an 8-minute response time guideline. This guideline was based on results of paramedic response times for nontraumatic cardiac arrest patients and has not been studied in unselected patients. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of paramedic response time on survival to hospital discharge in...

Division of Neurological Surgery, University of California Medical Center, San Diego, California; Division of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Division of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas; Department of Neurosurgery, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx, New York; and Department of Neurological Surgery, Ben Taub Medical Ce...

N. Hoogerwerf, MD PhD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen. J.P. Valk, MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, University Medical Center Groningen. R.J. Houmes MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS Rotterdam H.M. Christiaans MD, Medical Coordinator HEMS, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. L.M.G. Geeraedts jr. MD, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam....

PROBLEM When patient safety programs were mandated for Japanese health care institutions, a safety culture, a tool for collecting incident reports, an organizational arrangement for multidisciplinary collaboration, and interventional methods for improvement had to be established. DESIGN Observational study of effects of new patient safety programs. SETTING Osaka University Hospital, a large...

This study was conducted with the purpose of determining the frequency of medication errors (MEs) occurring in tertiary care emergency department (ED) of a large academic hospital in Iran. The incidence of MEs was determined through the disguised direct observation method conducted by a trained observer. A total of 1,031 medication doses administered to 202 patients admitted to the tertiary car...