Search Tag: emergency department

Executive Health Management

Successful-outsourcing-relationships

2015 22 Jun

Clinical outsourcing can be an important strategy for health providers, in particular those seeking to add specific clinical expertise or make improvements in certain areas to serve patients better.   So how does a hospital find a suitable clinical partner? An article, "Creating Outsourcing Relationships That Work", appearing in HealthLeaders Magazine...Read more

ICU Management

How-to-manage-pain-in-the-er

2015 16 Jun

A simple yes/no question could be an effective tool to help patients decide for themselves whether their pain is adequately controlled, according to researchers conducting a study to evaluate the efficacy of a new evidence-based protocol to treat acute, severe pain in emergency department patients.   Simply asking the question, "Do you want more pain...Read more

IT Management

Telemedicine-reduces-cost-of-care

2015 25 May

An UC Davis study has shown that compared to telephone, paediatric telemedicine consultations produced significant cost savings while improving quality of care. Telemedicine systems may be expensive to install and maintain, but they more than pay their way, saving an average $4,662 per use, researchers say. The findings are reported in the journal...Read more

Cardiology Management

Routine-inpatient-admission-not-beneficial-for-patients-with-chest-pain

2015 19 May

According to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, routine inpatient admission may not be a beneficial strategy for patients with chest pain. Patients with negative findings and nonconcerning vital signs rarely had adverse cardiac events. Patients with potentially ischaemic chest pain are commonly admitted to the hospital or are kept under...Read more

ICU Management

Frequent-ed-use-linked-to-higher-admissions-deaths

2015 12 May

Frequent users of emergency department (ED) care are more than twice as likely as infrequent users to die, be admitted to hospital, or require other outpatient treatment. The new findings are based on a systematic review of available evidence and published online in Emergency Medicine Journal . Relevant data analysed by researchers from the University...Read more

Executive Health Management

Randomised-trials-in-healthcare-delivery

2015 21 Apr

Economists and other academic researchers have increasingly been using randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to study all sorts of things, including how to best fight poverty. In the area of healthcare delivery, however, the use of RCTs is still not common — which is surprising given that the link between healthcare and poverty is strong, according to...Read more

IT Management

Twitter-can-help-predict-er-visits

2015 20 Apr

Twitter can be a useful tool for hospitals, according to University of Arizona researchers who observed how asthma-related tweets, analysed alongside other data, can help predict asthma-related emergency room (ER) visits.   The researchers created a model that was able to predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the ER at a large...Read more

ICU Management

Determining-heart-attack-in-the-er

2015 16 Apr

A multicentre study by Swiss and Spanish researchers has found that a new strategy to rule out and rule in heart attacks in emergency departments will help physicians treat patients faster. The new technique, called high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T 1-hour algorithm, was previously tested in a small pilot study. The research team decided to conduct...Read more

ICU Management

Patient-confusion-about-opioid-addiction-in-the-ed

2015 14 Apr

Emergency department (ED) patients have misperceptions about opioid dependence and want more information about their pain management options, according to researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Patients seen in the ED for acute pain, the researchers note, expressed a desire for better communication from physicians...Read more

IMAGING Management

Satisfaction-with-imaging-reports-in-emergency-settings

2015 31 Mar

In emergency settings, timeliness, readability, and accuracy of imaging reports are of the utmost importance for case management. This study aimed to determine physicians' preference towards three types of structured imaging reports — basic structured report (BSR), itemised report (IR), and point-and-click report (PCR) — used in emergency radiology....Read more

Cardiology Management

Chest-pain-in-ed-initial-diagnostic-testing-not-tied-to-future-risk-of-mi

2015 26 Jan

Patients sent to hospital emergency departments for chest pain, but who did not have a heart attack, appeared to have a low risk of experiencing any heart attacks during subsequent short-term and long-term follow-up periods, according to a study published in  JAMA Internal Medicine . The risk was not affected by the initial diagnostic testing strategy....Read more

ICU Management

New-tool-for-severe-sepsis-septic-shock-diagnosis

2015 04 Jan

A new study, published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, aimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of an electronic alert system in detecting severe sepsis or septic shock in ED patients. The study was carried out at a tertiary academic medical centre in Saudi Arabia. The results showed  high specificity and sensitivity and negative...Read more

ICU Management

Prescription-opioids-involved-in-most-overdoses-seen-in-eds

2014 30 Oct

Researchers have analysed data on US hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses and found that the largest portion of the overdoses (67.8 percent) involved prescription opioids, followed by heroin, other unspecified opioids and multiple opioids. The findings have been published by JAMA Internal Medicine . According to available data,...Read more

ICU Management

93-of-paediatric-fractures-splinted-improperly

2014 12 Oct

According to a recent study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, approximately 90 percent of potential paediatric fractures are splinted improperly in emergency rooms and urgent care centres.   The findings of the research were presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (APP) National Conference & Exhibition...Read more

ICU Management

First-cancer-specific-ed-opens-in-ohio

2014 29 Sep

The Ohio State University has opened its first fully integrated cancer emergency department. The Comprehensive Care Center is the result of a partnership between Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital, Richard J. Solove Research Institute and Wexner Medical Center Emergency Department. The centre is based on a clinical care model that combines the expertise...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ultrasound-system-developed-for-the-er

2014 19 Sep

Fujifilm SonoSite’s (Bothell, WA, USA) new ultrasound system, the X-Porte, has been specially designed for emergency medicine settings and includes novel features for the ER such as an education and training module along with the ability to save images on an external flash drive, MedImaging.Net reported. X-Porte was developed from the ground up to...Read more

ICU Management

Does-bedspacing-affect-quality-of-care

2014 14 Sep

Overcrowding is an ongoing concern across hospitals. When the number of patients requiring hospital admission exceeds the number of available department-allotted beds, patients are often placed in a different specialty's inpatient ward, a practice known as “bedspacing”. For example, patients admitted to the general internal medicine (GIM) service might be...Read more

Cardiology Management

Outpatient-improvements-may-prevent-afhs-readmissions

2014 12 Sep

A recent study finds that repeat emergency department (ED) visits for acute heart failure suggest a lack of appropriate outpatient care. It was found that nearly one-third of acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS) patients seen in hospital emergency departments in Florida and California had ED visits during the following year. The study was conducted...Read more

Executive Health Management

Pet-therapy-for-hospital-employee-stress

2014 01 Sep

A number of hospitals have long used therapy dogs to help their patients. Now, even emergency room doctors and nurses themselves have turned to pets to help relieve the stress from their daily work. At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, ER physicians and nurses forego their sandwiches during their lunch hour in order to have "puppy" time...Read more

ICU Management

Futile-care-for-some-delays-care-for-others

2014 29 Aug

Recent research shows that providing futile treatment to ICU patients delayed the availability of care services – often for four hours or more – for other patients requiring transfer into the ICU. In some instances, requests for ICU transfers were cancelled after patients had waited a day or longer when the ICU was full. These data came from a three-month...Read more