Sentences with phrase «u.s. emergency departments»

«Adolescents and young adults (15 - 19 years) and adults aged 40 years and older have the highest bicycle death rates.3 Children (5 - 14 years), adolescents, and young adults (15 - 24 years) have the highest rates of nonfatal bicycle - related injuries, accounting for more than one - third of all bicycle - related injuries seen in U.S. emergency departments.3 Males are much more likely to be killed or injured on bicycles than are females.3 Most bicyclist deaths occur in urban areas and at non-intersection locations.4» https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/bicycle/ Pucher J, Buehler R, Merom D, Bauman A. Walking and cycling in the United States, 2001 — 2009: Evidence from the National Household Travel Surveys.

The National Pediatric Readiness Project is a multi-phase quality improvement initiative to ensure that all U.S. emergency departments have the essential guidelines and resources in place to provide effective emergency care to children.

For example, patient who received their first opioid prescription for an ankle sprain treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) commonly received prescriptions for anywhere from 15 to 40 pills, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Showing the opioid epidemic knows no age limits, new research suggests more than 100 children test positive for opioid addiction or dependency each day in U.S. emergency departments.

«U.S. emergency departments face serious drug shortages.»

A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined data relating to children age 3 years and younger who were treated in U.S. emergency departments from 2003 through 2010 for high chair - related injuries.

In the study, researchers examined private insurance claims data from more than 53,000 patients visiting U.S. emergency departments for an ankle sprain in 2011 - 2012.

For example, patients who received their first opioid prescription for an ankle sprain treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) commonly received prescriptions for anywhere from 15 to 40 pills, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Low back pain (LBP) is responsible for 2.4 percent of visits to U.S. emergency departments, resulting in more than 2.5 million visits annually.

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Upon detecting that intrusion, OPM launched an investigation — in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US - CERT) and the FBI — to determine its full scope and impact.

Cornell's April Salas oversees planning and analysis for emergency response at the U.S. Department of Energy.

U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US - CERT) Resources include the National Cyber Alert System, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; system provides updates on Internet security threats.

Our new research shows that every day in the U.S., an average of 24 children are treated in an emergency department for an injury related to either a high chair or chair booster seat — that is one child every hour.

Emergency department visits for ice hockey - related injuries among U.S. children aged 9 to 14 soared from 2,935 in 1990 to 7,713 in 2006 — an increase of 163 percent, researchers have found.

1990 — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declares child abuse and neglect to be a national emergency.

NEWARK — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he will contact New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to assess the emergency response to unprecedented chaos last Sunday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, all Democrats say the funding for the city fire department is through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program - Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER grant, through the Department of Homelanddepartment is through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program - Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER grant, through the Department of HomelandDepartment of Homeland Security.

The indictment states the fraud took place between 2012 and 2016 and involved defrauding various agencies, including the New York City Council, New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the New York City Build it Back Program and a federal bankruptcy court in Brooklyn.

The costs in 2012 U.S. dollars included the therapy, outpatient services, hospitalization, emergency department visits, pharmacy services and nonmedical services, as well as indirect costs such as losses in worker productivity.

And, of the 154 million antibiotic prescriptions written in U.S. doctors» offices and emergency departments each year, it's estimated that 1 in 3 are unnecessary.

«Significant increase in painkillers prescribed to U.S. adults visiting emergency departments.»

«Getting parents to delay the transition to a forward - facing seat still represents an opportunity to improve passenger safety in the U.S.,» says Macy, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

The most crowded emergency departments in the U.S. have not adopted proven interventions to address crowding, a major public health concern.

«Unintended consequences of emergency department information systems in U.S..»

Hersh, Andrew T. Pavia, M.D., also an infectious disease expert and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, Lauri A. Hicks, D.O., a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and University of California, San Francisco, medical student Daniel J. Shapiro, conducted the study using a public database with information on ambulatory care visits at physician offices and hospital - based outpatient and emergency departments nationwide.

Though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and national research organizations have recommended universal HIV screening, lead author Michael Lyons, MD, says there is still disagreement among physicians on how to implement screening in the nation's already busy emergency departments.

The Wallops team also met with a group of state and local officials, including the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the Virginia Marine Police, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The U.S. Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit collects and analyzes data to inform policymaking in humanitarian emergency response.

Using a multistate database called the State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the researchers looked at 958 hospitals admitting children, which were mostly large or medium - sized, and urban.

In the U.S., emergency department visits for skin infections nearly tripled from 1.2 million to 3.4 million between 1993 and 2005, and the burden of such infections has continued since then.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

A federal agricultural state of emergency has been declared, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has contracted the Brazilian consortium, the Organization for Nucleotide Sequencing and Analysis (ONSA), to sequence the strain that causes this scourge.

Accidental injuries accounted for 5 percent of all deaths in 2011 and 28 million emergency department visits in 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Traditionally, the U.S. Department of Education has steered clear of broad school construction efforts (with the exception of one - time appropriations like the $ 1.2 billion infusion approved in 2000 for school building renovations and emergency repairs).

Copyright 1988, Editorial April 22 — Immigrant education: The U.S. Education Department is inviting applications for new awards, under the Emergency Immigrant Education Program, to provide financial assistance to state educational agencies for educational services and costs for eligible immigrant children enrolled in elementary and secondary public and nonprofit schools.

Presenters included representatives from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Homeless Education, Texas Education Agency, Texas Homeless Education Office, Louisiana Department of Education, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

While there, he became involved with, and then became the team leader of the NESA Virtual School Project - a U.S. State Department sponsored consortium of schools cost - sharing an online learning management system for blended learning, collaboration, and emergency academic continuity.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Healthy Students has awarded Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) a Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant totaling $ 351,718.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) for the repair and replacement of public schools in Orleans Parish, including the City of New Orleans, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Meanwhile, the House bill specifically allocates $ 3 million in current funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Safe Schools and Citizenship Education initiative to the Project School Emergency Response to Violence program, which helps schools and colleges recover from a violent or traumatic event in which the learning environment has been disrupted.

Ready Kids developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help teachers and parents prepare children in grades 4 - 8 for natural disasters and other emergencies

On October 1, 2005, the Lucas County Educational Service Center (now known as the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West) was awarded $ 498,125.00 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools to develop a program of Emergency Response and Crisis Management for area school districts.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), today announced it is issuing an emergency order to ban all Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone devices from air transportation in the United States.

about U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $ 2 Million for Emergency Repairs to Roads and Bridges in Louisiana

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help the Michigan Department of Transportation cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by rainfall in the Detroit metro area.

Accordingly, Transport Canada and the U.S. Department of Transportation will explore new initiatives and continue the coordinated work in the areas of civil emergency transportation preparedness plans and arrangements.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate release of $ 2 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration to help the Delaware Department of Transportation repair the I - 495 Bridge over the Christina River northeast of Wilmington after inspections revealed support columns on the bridge had shifted.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the release of $ 1 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to the Alabama Department of Transportation for repairs to the northbound I - 65 bridge over Middle River in Baldwin and Mobile Counties which was damaged by a truck fire last month.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 1.5 million in Emergency Relief funds to help the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) cover the cost of repairing a section of Interstate 15 and other routes damaged by flooding north of Las Vegas in the Moapa Valley.