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Managing and Measuring Emergency Department Care: Results of the Fourth Emergency Department Benchmarking Definitions Summit.

BACKGROUND: A shared language and vocabulary are essential for managing emergency department (ED) operations. This Fourth Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance (EDBA) Summit brought together experts in the field to review, update, and add to key…

New Year's.

Tags: 2020, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Jouriles Nicholas, NEOMED College of Medicine, Summa Health System Akron City Hospital

Geriatric emergency medicine and the 2006 Institute of Medicine reports from the Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. health system.

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…

Does functional decline prompt emergency department visits and admission in older patients?

BACKGROUND: Older patients may visit the emergency department (ED) when their illness affects their function. OBJECTIVES: To quantify the function of older ED patients, to assess whether functional decline (FD) had occurred, and to determine whether…

Screening for adolescent depression in a pediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of depressive symptoms in adolescents presenting to the emergency department (ED) and to describe their demographics and outcomes compared with adolescents endorsing low levels of depressive symptoms. METHODS:…

Tags: *Adolescent Behavior, 2006, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Akron Children's Hospital, Alexander Heather, Christopher Norman C, Comorbidity, Cross-Sectional Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Depression/classification/*diagnosis/*epidemiology, Emergency Service, Female, Fenn Robin L, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data, Humans, Logistic Models, Luxmore Brett, Male, Mass Screening/*instrumentation/*statistics & numerical data, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio/epidemiology, Patient Participation/statistics & numerical data, Pediatrics/*statistics & numerical data, Prevalence, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Scott Emily Gale, Transportation of Patients/statistics & numerical data, Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology

Characteristics of emergency medicine program directors.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize emergency medicine (EM) program directors (PDs) and compare the data, where possible, with those from other related published studies. METHODS: An online survey was e-mailed in 2002 to all EM PDs of programs that were…

An evaluation of two screening tools for cognitive impairment in older emergency department patients.

OBJECTIVES: Screening for cognitive impairment in older emergency department (ED) patients is recommended to ensure quality care. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) may be too long for routine ED use. Briefer alternatives include the Six-Item…

Reclining chairs reduce pain from gurneys in older emergency department patients: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES: Pain related to the gurney is a frequent complaint of older emergency department (ED) patients. The authors hypothesized that these patients may have less pain and higher satisfaction if allowed to sit in a reclining hospital chair.…

Tags: *Emergency Service, *Wheelchairs, 2005, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Aged, Blanda Michelle, Burger Barbara, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Gerson Lowell W, Hospital, Humans, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pain Measurement, Pain/*prevention & control, Patient Satisfaction, Prospective Studies, Wilber Scott T

Short-term functional decline and service use in older emergency department patients with blunt injuries.

BACKGROUND: Injuries are a common reason for emergency department (ED) visits by older patients. Although injuries in older patients can be serious, 75% of these patients are discharged home after their ED visit. These patients may be at risk for…

Tags: *Activities of Daily Living, 2010, 80 and over, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Academic Medical Centers, Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Allen Kyle R, Blanda Michelle, Bone/physiopathology/therapy, Clinical Assessment Tools, Comorbidity, Confidence Intervals, Department of Emergency Medicine, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Care – In Old Age, Emergency Patients – In Old Age, Emergency Service, Family, Female, Fisher's Exact Test, Fractures, Functional Status – In Old Age, Geriatric Assessment, Geriatric Functional Assessment, Gerson Lowell W, Health Resource Utilization – In Old Age, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitals, Human, Humans, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mental Status Schedule, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nonpenetrating – In Old Age, Nonpenetrating/*physiopathology/*therapy, OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire, Odds Ratio, Ohio, Outcome Assessment, Outpatients, P-Value, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Questionnaires, Record Review, ROC Curve, Scales, Summated Rating Scaling, Surveys and Questionnaires, T-Tests, Teaching, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Wilber Scott T, Wounds

In reply:.

Tags: 2010, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Bono Michael J, Cone David C, Gerson Lowell W

DNAR does not equate to "do not care".

Tags: *Resuscitation Orders, 2008, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Attitude to Death, Blanda Michelle, Decision Making, Department of Emergency Medicine, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician's Role, Terminal Care/*ethics

A research agenda for geriatric emergency medicine.

OBJECTIVES: The Research Agenda Setting Process (RASP), part of the American Geriatric Society's (AGS's) project "Increasing Geriatric Expertise in Surgical and Related Medical Specialties," was designed to define a research agenda for the geriatrics…

Tags: *Emergency Service, *Geriatric Assessment, *Health Services Research, 2003, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Aged, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Emergency Medicine/education, Geriatrics/education, Gerson Lowell W, Hospital, Humans, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Wilber Scott T, Wounds and Injuries/therapy

Inferences from aggregated data.

Tags: *Data Collection, *Data Interpretation, *Emergency Medical Services, 2003, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Bias, Humans, Jarjoura David, Models, Statistical, Theoretical

Assessment of emergency medicine residents' computer knowledge and computer skills: time for an upgrade?

OBJECTIVE: To describe emergency medicine residents' (EMRs') personal computer (PC) use and educational needs and to compare their perceived and actual PC skills. METHODS: This was a prospective, cross-sectional study. Subjects were all EMRs at seven…

Intranasal lidocaine for the treatment of migraine headache: a randomized, controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of intranasal lidocaine for immediate relief (5 minutes) of migraine headache pain. METHODS: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial at two university-affiliated community teaching hospitals…

Do elder emergency department patients and their informants agree about the elder's functioning?

OBJECTIVE: To compare elder patients' and their informants' ratings of the elder's physical and mental function measured by a standard instrument, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 12 (SF-12). METHODS: This was a randomized, cross-sectional study…

Multicenter study of case finding in elderly emergency department patients.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a brief comprehensive case-finding program for detecting functional, cognitive, and social impairments among elderly ED patients and to estimate the prevalence of unknown, undetected, or untreated impairments…

Directing an emergency medicine residency: the problems and their potential solutions.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the problems facing emergency medicine residency directors (EMRDs), to describe potential solutions, and to associate perceptions with anticipated duration in the position of EMRD. METHODS: A confidential questionnaire was…

Tags: 1995, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adult, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine/*education, Female, Gerson L W, Humans, Internship and Residency/*organization & administration, Job Satisfaction, Kuhn G, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician Executives/*statistics & numerical data, United States, Weigand J

Outcomes of Patients With Syncope and Suspected Dementia.

OBJECTIVES: Syncope and near-syncope are common in patients with dementia and a leading cause of emergency department (ED) evaluation and subsequent hospitalization. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical trajectory and short-term…

Tags: 2018, 80 and over, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adler David H, Aged, Bastani Aveh, Baugh Christopher W, Caterino Jeffrey M, Clark Carol L, Dementia – Diagnosis – In Old Age, Dementia – Risk Factors, Dementia – Therapy, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diercks Deborah B, Emergency, Gibson Tommy A, Holden Timothy R, Hollander Judd E, Human, Iatrogenic Disease, Inpatients, interviews, Length of Stay, Malveau Susan E, Middle Age, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nicks Bret A, Nishijima Daniel K, Office Visits, Outcome Assessment, Outcomes (Health Care), Patient Assessment, Patient Discharge, Physicians, Prospective Studies, Shah Manish N, Stiffler Kirk A, Storrow Alan B, Sun Benjamin C, Surveys, Syncope – Diagnosis, Syncope – In Old Age, Syncope – Mortality, Weiss Robert E, Wilber Scott T, Yagapen Annick N

Consensus statement on advancing research in emergency department operations and its impact on patient care.

The consensus conference on "Advancing Research in Emergency Department (ED) Operations and Its Impact on Patient Care," hosted by The ED Operations Study Group (EDOSG), convened to craft a framework for future investigations in this important but…

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