Emergency Care

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 12 days ago
New figures show more than a quarter of Victorian patients are still waiting too long for Care in hospital Emergency departments. ...

Source: uk.news.yahoo.com --- 17 days ago
The NHS watchdog has raised concerns over standards of Care in the Emergency services. ...

Source: news.uk.msn.com --- 13 days ago
The number of patients needing Emergency treatment has soared because of hospital cuts. A study carried out by Pulse, the newspaper for General Practitioners, shows that an NHS hospital scheme to reduce follow-up appointments and to discharge patients earlier has led to a 12% increase in Emergency readmissions. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 20 days ago
Officials at Adventist HealthCare announced plans yesterday to turn the hospital's Takoma Park campus into a health center with Emergency and primary Care and community amenities such as a gymnasium and pool once the current hospital moves north to the Calverton-White Oak area of Montgomery County. ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 18 days ago
Serious concerns are being raised about the state of England's Emergency Care services by an NHS watchdog. ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 16 days ago
Worcestershire Primary Care Trust's Emergency services are among the worst in the country, a watchdog finds. ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 1 day ago
Related Articles The epidemiology of Emergency medical services use by children: an analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2008 Jul-Sep;12(3):269-76 Authors: Shah MN, Cushman JT, Davis CO, Bazarian JJ, Auinger P, Friedman B OBJECTIVE: There is an absence of nationally representative data describing pediatric patients who use Emergency medical services (EMS) and the factors associated with EMS use by children. This study characterizes pediatric Emergency department (ED) visits for which the patient arrived by EMS and identifies factors associated with those visits using a nationally representative database. METHODS: A secondary analysis of the ED component of the 1997-2000 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey was performed. The dependent variable was the mode of arrival to the ED (EMS vs. not EMS), and independent variables were grouped into four domains: demographic, clinical, system, and service characteristics. Bivariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted. RESULTS: There were 110.9 million ED visits by children aged<19 years between 1997 and 2000. Pediatric patients constituted 27.3% of all ED visits during this time, and 7.9 million (7.1%) of these patients arrived via EMS. Pediatric patients represented 13% of all EMS transports. The annual EMS utilization rate by children was 26 per 1,000, compared with 66 per 1,000 in the adult populat ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 34 days ago
DETROIT, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation (News) today announced that it is helping Emergisoft deliver high-quality software to hospital Emergency rooms using Compuware Application Performance Assurance. ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 18 days ago
Related Articles Manchester triage system in paediatric Emergency Care. BMJ. 2008;337:a1507 Authors: Maconochie I, Dawood M PMID: 18809588 [PubMed - in process] ...

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov --- 28 days ago
Related Articles Consensus-based policy recommendations for geriatric Emergency Care. Int J Health Care Qual Assur. 2008;21(4):385-95 Authors: Parke B, McCusker J PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to establish policy recommendations to address service and Care delivery challenges facing hospital Emergency departments (EDs) responding to the needs of increasing numbers of older adults. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The consensus development process used an international expert interdisciplinary panel, convened at an international conference. Following a round table discussion and think-tank session, a nominal group method with constant comparative analysis and coding techniques was used to identify policy recommendations. Two rounds of electronic input followed the face-to-face meeting to reach consensus on priority ranking of the policy recommendations. Findings underwent an external review by four independent experts. FINDINGS: A total of seven categories of policy recommendations were developed: education, integration and coordination of Care, resources, ED physical environment, evidence-based practice, research and evaluation, and advocacy. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: The consensus development process did not include a systematic literature review on the topic. However, participants included experts in their disciplines. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The recommendations may assist administrators, policy makers, clinicians, and r ...

Source: online.wsj.com --- 33 days ago
Emergencies that beset the elderly tend to force working caregivers to drop everything and rush to the scene. How to lay the groundwork at work for an unforeseen crisis. ...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 41 days ago
...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 7 days ago
...

Source: www.philly.com --- 4 days ago
Kevin McKenzie, 27, a graduate of Cherry Hill West High School, plays bass guitar in an up-and-coming Philadelphia indie pop band, Liam and Me. ...

Source: weblog.blogads.com --- 9 days ago
Congress today will vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The act was conceived as a $700 billion Emergency defibrillation for an economy in cardiac arrest, but now includes a $170 billion perm, tatoo and piercing just because some moronic members of Congress thinks the patient will look better that way. If Congress [...] ...

Source: www.reviewjournal.com --- 7 days ago
...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 23 days ago
A global call for action to address the growing public health and social Care Emergency posed by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to current and future generations has been launched for World Alzheimer's Day (21 September) by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI). The worldwide effort focuses on a new Global Alzheimer's Disease Charter urgently calling upon all governments and stakeholders to act now to make Alzheimer's disease and other dementias a priority. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 21 days ago
A global call for action to address the growing public health and social Care Emergency posed by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias to current and future generations has been launched today (World Alzheimer's Day) by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI).(1) The worldwide effort focuses on a new Global Alzheimer's Disease Charter urgently calling upon all governments and stakeholders to act now to make Alzheimer's disease and other dementias a priority. ...

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 26 days ago
Summaries of two articles examining trends in Emergency Care appear below. Free-standing Emergency departments: The Washington Post on Tuesday examined how free-standing EDs that have no inpatient beds are able to offer "streamlined" full-service Emergency Care. ...

Source: cbs2.com --- 33 days ago
Chester's owner had spilled food on the landscaping rocks and didn't realize he would think of it as a treat. Pat Harvey reports. ...