Sentences with phrase «emergency department use»

Emergency department use and costs for youth with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder: associations with stimulant treatment.

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Co-payments impact affordability of care and emergency department use, and were rightly abandoned,» she said.

The papers «Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospital Use by Medicare Beneficiaries in Patient - Centered Medical Homes» and «Changes in Emergency Department Use Among Young Adults After the ACA's Dependent Coverage Provision,» along with an accompanying editorial («Patient - Centered Medical Homes May Reduce ED Use: What Does this Tell Us?»)

The type of outpatient emergency department use that may be affected by PCMH practices is not a main driver of health care expenditures when compared to inpatient hospital admissions and skilled nursing care.»

«Telephone surveillance and the use of big data allowed us to find red flags identifying patients at risk of high - cost medical interventions, such as emergency department use and / or hospitalization.

They then developed seven recommendations for emergency departments using any type of EDIS, with some recommendations directed at the EDIS vendor and others directed at the end user.

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In the asthma study, we found increased odds among asthma patients of asthma hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.

The emergency declaration would also free up public health emergency funds at the Department of Health and Human Services, and grant individual states more flexibility in how they use federal dollars, and allow them to direct more funds toward addiction treatment and prevention.

JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) use it as a kind of mailing list; presidential candidates use it to contact supporters; the Los Angeles fire department uses it as a de facto emergency broadcast system.

The Commerce Department will impose the tariffs under a rarely used law that allows emergency trade sanctions for «national security.»

US considering limits on China's tech investments The US Department of the Treasury is considering deploying a little - used law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to potentially block transactions and seize assets if President Trump declares China's violation of US intellectual property rights a national eEmergency Economic Powers Act to potentially block transactions and seize assets if President Trump declares China's violation of US intellectual property rights a national emergencyemergency.

A senior Treasury official said last month the department is considering using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act as a way to restrict Chinese investment.

The Departments believe that ACEP and other commenters did not provide adequate information to support their assertion that the methods used for determining the minimum payment for Start Printed Page 19435out - of - network emergency services under the GOT regulation are not sufficiently transparent or reasonable.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation issued a Section 18 Emergency Exemption for the use of Hero ® EW Insecticide against the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) on Monday April 11, 2016.

«Fellows and Members of the College are confronted daily with the health impacts of alcohol use, and also experience the effects of alcohol intoxication on behaviour, including social disorder and lawlessness which sometimes spills over into the hospital environment in general, and Emergency Departments in particular.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today urged Utica residents who will be impacted by the County's operation of 911 emergency services to use the time prior to next month's transition of 911 calls to the County to update their phones and directories with key numbers needed to contact the Utica Police Department.

The county had received a similar state grant in 2013 for $ 6 million and used part of that money to purchase 400 police radios which were loaned to other departments to allow them to better communicate during emergency incidents, Mr. Sini said.

At 12:30 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, NYC Councilman Jimmy Vacca and others hold a press conference to call on the NYC Department of Homeless Services to ban level two and three sex offenders from temporary emergency housing and homeless shelters used to house families with children, across from the Crystal Family Residence, 555 Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx.

A state Department of Transportation spokesman contended the signs helped boost tourism, but didn't address directly DeFrancisco's complaints about the use of emergency funds.

Our Department of Health has been at the forefront in educating law enforcement and emergency responders, as well as private citizens, in the use of life saving Narcan and has been on the frontlines of the epidemic in other ways I will talk more about later.

The state reports eight times as many emergency department visits this year related to synthetic drug use.

By November, he had changed his parole address to the Budget 19, a motel that is frequently used as emergency housing by the Ulster County Department of Social Services.

In her resolution, Legislator Dixon requests that the Departments of Health, Emergency Services, and Central Police Services work together to create and maintain a database for use in emergency siEmergency Services, and Central Police Services work together to create and maintain a database for use in emergency siemergency situations.

In a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), Legislator Hardwick requests that the City's Police Department be awarded funding through the Port Security Grant Program to be used to purchase new equipment.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

At the press conference the Borough President will address Chancellor Klein's use of emergency powers, immediate steps the DOE must take with the P.S. 94 school community, and broader problems the Department must resolve that impact District 75 schools serving high - needs students citywide.

«The purpose of the physical use of the kiosks is for subscribers to be able to make free domestic calls, provide USB charging ports to charge up phones and tablets, provide Internet access, and for emergency services,» said Bronx Borough President Diaz Jr. «I want to thank the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, as well as CityBridge, for listening to the issues raised by New York City residents regarding the use of these kiosks and making these positive adjustments.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The cost savings included use of skin barriers and other ostomy care accessories, medications, emergency department and hospital visits, as well as «social costs» such as missed work or appointments.

An electronic sepsis alert using a combination of vital signs, risk factors and physician judgment to identify children in a pediatric emergency department with severe sepsis reduced missed diagnoses by 76 percent.

Michael A. Yokell, Sc.B., of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., and colleagues analyzed the 2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample using diagnostic codes to define opioid overdoses.

The correlation between Internet searches on a regional medical website and next - day visits to regional emergency departments was «significant,» suggesting that Internet data may be used in the future to predict the level of demand at emergency departments.

Using Google Analytics, researchers tallied and graphed Internet searches of the Stockholm Health Care Guide (SHCG), a regional medical website, over a one - year period and compared them to emergency department visits over the same period.

Three months after the emergency department visit, regardless of study group, opioid use for LBP was uncommon, with fewer than 3 percent of patients reporting use of an opioid within the previous 72 hours.

Measures of pain, functional impairment, and use of health care resources were not different between the study groups at 7 days or at 3 months after the emergency department visit.

After controlling for age, race, sex, marital status, education, drug use, and smoking, compared to people who did not binge drink, people who drank at the various binge levels were much more likely to experience an alcohol - related emergency department visit; have an alcohol use disorder; be injured because of drinking; be arrested or have legal problems resulting from alcohol use; or be the driver in an alcohol - related traffic crash.

Using data from 2007 to 2011 for more than 675,000 patients from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) for California that included information on patient discharge, outpatient surgeries, and emergency department records, researchers were able to link surgical records to postoperative diagnoses of ODO occurring within one year of surgery.

Pre-hospital systems to identify patients and bring them to the appropriate hospitals, emergency department swarming, rapid simple imaging, and use of telemedicine must be harnessed to reduce times to treatment.

The study was undertaken at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, where doctors in the emergency department recorded their overall clinical judgement for ACS using a five - point Likert scale (from «definitely ACS» to «definitely not» ACS).

«Using prescription opioids to treat acute painful conditions in emergency departments and hospitals might do more harm than good, as they can potentially lead to misuse and addiction.

Educate and train the public on how to recognize cardiac arrest, contact emergency responders, administer CPR, and use AEDs, as well as facilitate state and local education departments to include CPR and AED training as middle - and high - school graduation requirements.

The Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule was developed by researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, which also created The Ottawa Rules, decision tools used in emergency departments around the world to identify ankle, knee and spine fractures.

Researchers created clinical scenarios related to four common pitfalls of EDIS use in emergency departments: communication failure, poor data display, wrong order / wrong patient errors and alert fatigue.

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.

Of these 51 patients, 73 percent had received a naloxone rescue kit either in the emergency department or elsewhere, such as a detox facility, and approximately one third of the reported opioid use in the last 30 days.

«If I'm working in the emergency room and I have a family that comes in with a seizing infant, I may not have the wherewithal to get the history of homeopathic use,» said Dr. Edward W. Boyer, a toxicologist in Harvard Medical School's emergency medicine department.

«Boosting federal and state funding for substance abuse programs could help alleviate some of the frequent use of Emergency Departments as sources of addiction care.»

«We've seen a dramatic increase in the past year of patients coming into the Emergency Department with complications related to substance use disorders,» he said.