BACKGROUND Most interventions aimed at reducing hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have employed resource-intense programs in high-risk individuals. Although COPD is a progressive disease, little is known about the effectiveness of proactive interventions aimed at preventing hospitalizations and ED visits in the mu...

BACKGROUND Acute asthma is a chronic condition affecting people of all ages around the world and hence, is one of the leading causes of emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions globally. Most of them are related to poor patient practices and a weak healthcare system. The aim of our study was to assess the reasons for the increased usage of the ED by asthmatic patients in Pakista...

OBJECTIVE To examine emergency department (ED) staff's knowledge of traumatic stress in children, attitudes toward providing psychosocial care, and confidence in doing so, and also to examine differences in these outcomes according to demographic, professional, and organizational characteristics, and training preferences. STUDY DESIGN We conducted an online survey among staff in ED and equiva...

BACKGROUND Patients with asthma who visit the emergency department (ED) may benefit from education that optimizes self-management and treatment. OBJECTIVE To conduct a randomized trial of asthma education (AE) after an ED visit. METHODS Patients who present with acute asthma and history consistent with moderate to severe persistent asthma or recent ED visits were stratified by age (adult, c...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] THE EFFECT OF CONTEXTUALISING PROBABILITY EDUCATION O...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] KNOU MOBILE LEARNING FOR INNOVATION IN STATISTICS EDU...

Lessons Learnt in Implementation of ABCD Score in an Emergency Department To the Editor: Sciolla et al’s article1 regarding the prospective validation of the ABCD score is relative to our results. Our group recently reported our own data, which also found the ABCD score highly predictive of stroke (ABCD score of 5 to 6 predicting 4/4 strokes at 7 days and 6/7 at 90 days) and prompted the creati...

OBJECTIVE To test whether well-child care visit anticipatory guidance can safely reduce emergency department (ED) visits. DESIGN Retrospective analysis comparing an intervention site with control sites using a "difference-in-differences" regression model. SETTING Primary care practices at the Mayo Clinic. PARTICIPANTS Children who attended a 15-month well-child care visit. INTERVENTIONS...

Objective To examine the efficacy of Dementia Stigma Reduction (DESeRvE) programme, aimed at reducing general public dementia-related stigma utilising ‘education’ and ‘contact’ approaches. Methods A total 1024 Australians aged between 40 87 years (M = 60.8, SD 10.1) participated in a factorial randomised controlled trial. This trial examined four conditions: online education programme (ED), con...

Karel Souček, Andrés Kamaid, Anh D. Phung, Lukáš Kubala, J. Chloë Bulinski, Richart W. Harper, and Jason P. Eiserich* Departmentof InternalMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof PhysiologyandMembrane Biology,Universityof California,Davis,California Cancer Center, SchoolofMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof Biological Sciencesand PathologyandCel...