Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "emergency department"
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Association of Race/Ethnicity with Emergency Department Wait Times
(American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2005)OBJECTIVE:To determine whether wait times for children treated in emergency departments (EDs) nationally are associated with patient race/ethnicity. METHODS:Data were obtained from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical ... -
Care Setting Intensity and Outcomes After Emergency Department Presentation Among Patients With Acute Heart Failure
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) presenting to the emergency department (ED) can be admitted to care settings of different intensity, where the intensive care unit (ICU) is the highest intensity, ward admission ... -
Coronary CT Angiography Versus Standard Emergency Department Evaluation for Acute Chest Pain and Diabetic Patients: Is There Benefit With Early Coronary CT Angiography?: Results of the Randomized Comparative Effectiveness ROMICAT II Trial
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Background: Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) reduces emergency department length of stay compared with standard evaluation in patients with low‐ and intermediate‐risk acute chest pain. Whether diabetic patients ... -
Emergency department visits for acute asthma by adults who ran out of their inhaled medications
(OceanSide Publications, Inc., 2014)This study was designed to determine the percentage of asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits made by patients who recently ran out of their inhaled short-acting beta-agonists or inhaled corticosteroids and to ... -
Multicentre observational study of adults with asthma exacerbations: who are the frequent users of the emergency department in Japan?
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Objectives: Emergency department (ED) visits for asthma exacerbation reflect a failure of longitudinal asthma management. However, little is known about the characteristics of patients with frequent ED visits (≥2 visits ... -
Nocturnal emergency department visits, duration of symptoms and risk of hospitalisation among adults with asthma exacerbations: a multicentre observational study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Objectives: We sought to compare the characteristics of patients with asthma presenting to the emergency department (ED) during the night-time with those of patients presenting at other times of the day, and to determine ... -
Outcomes Considered Most Important by Emergency Physicians When Determining Disposition of Patients with Pulmonary Embolism
(Springer-Verlag, 2010)Purpose: Clinical decision rules for the disposition of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) are typically validated against an outcome of 30-day mortality or disease recurrence. There is little justification for this ... -
Rapid HIV Testing Program Implementation: Lessons from the Emergency Department
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)Background: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and the World Health Organization (WHO) both recommend HIV testing in health-care settings. However, neither organization provides prescriptive ...