Copyright © 2017 The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine Hounsfield units in pseudo subarachnoid hemorrhage: worth looking for Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Nanjundan Karthikeyan, Namasivayam Balamurugan, Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian Department of Emergency & Critical Care, Erode Emergency Care Hospital, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation...

OBJECTIVES This report presents information on the use of electronic clinical systems to support patient care in physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient settings. Percentages of hospital emergency and outpatient departments with electronic patient medical records and automated drug dispensing systems are presented by selected hospital characteristics for 2001-02. Percentages of ...

Three recently published Institute of Medicine reports, Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point, Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads, and Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains, examined the current state of emergency care in the United States. They concluded that the emergency medicine system as a whole is overburdened, underfunded, and highly fragmented. These repor...

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...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the reorganisation of out of hours primary care, from practice rotas to GP cooperatives, changed utilisation of primary and hospital emergency care. METHODS During a four week period before and a four week period after the reorganisation of out of hours primary care in a region in the south of the Netherlands all patient contacts with general practitioners and...