Sentences with phrase «emergency department visits»

There was no change in the percentage of emergency department visits for sore throat during the time period (2.2 - 2.3 percent).

In children under 2, falls from stairs are a leading cause of emergency department visits.

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

Results concluded that when monthly emergency department visits are grouped seasonally, there is an increase in headaches in the fall in children ages five to 18 - years - old.

Emergency department visits for antibiotic - associated adverse events.

The rate of emergency department visits in California for non-injuries has risen while the rate of visits for injuries has dropped, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco that documents the increasing amount of care provided in emergency departments for complex, chronic conditions.

«While dose counters can help reduce the number of asthma related emergency department visits annually, this alone is not enough,» said allergist Michael Foggs, M.D., ACAAI president - elect.

The error rate of forecasting individual hospitals» emergency department visit rates based on Internet searches ranged from 5.2 percent to 13.1 percent.

In a national study of hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses, 67.8 percent of the overdoses involved prescription opioids (including methadone), followed by heroin, other unspecified opioids and multiple opioids, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

«Regions with stricter gun laws had lower incidence rates of firearm - related emergency department visits by children.»

The new study, based on U.S. emergency department visits at specific years of age, refutes the belief that workplace chemicals are the most common cause of these potentially blinding eye injuries.

The first study to use Internet data to predict emergency department visits in either a region or a single hospital was published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Traumatic brain injury, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), accounts for 1.365 million hospital emergency department visits annually.

In this study, researchers reviewed electronic medical records of 100 child pedestrian emergency department visits at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. from January 1 to December 21, 2012, including ambulance dispatch data, patient demographics, procedure (s), diagnoses, and length of stay.

Regions of the United States with the strictest gun laws also have the fewest emergency department visits for pediatric firearm - related injuries, according to a new study by Children's National Health System researchers.

By addressing social services needs through referrals, the hope is that patients will avoid not only costly hospitalizations in the future but perhaps unnecessary emergency department visits.

George Washington University (GW) researchers report dramatic increases in prescriptions of opioid analgesics, such as Percocet, Vicodin, oxycodone and Dilaudid, during U.S. emergency department visits from 2001 to 2010.

Monitoring suicide and self - harm related emergency department visits among young children, early adolescents, and late adolescents in New York City.

The study, titled «Epidemiology of Hospital Based Emergency Department Visits Attributed to Injuries Due to Legal Interventions in Children in the United States: An Important Public Health Issue!»

To investigate this question, Children's National researchers gathered data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), a set of hospital - based emergency department databases created by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to aggregate data about emergency department visits across the country.

Source: Bakhos, L, Lockhart, G., Myers, R., Linakis, J. Emergency Department Visits for Concussion in Young Child Athletes.

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.

«For this type of information to be useful, it is important that we be able to predict emergency department visits further into the future than the next day,» said Dr. Ekstrom.

«The CDC gets reports of emergency department visits several weeks after the fact, and then they put out surveillance maps,» Ram said.

Implementation of such physical therapy programmes are also integral in connecting emergency medicine physicians with community - based physical therapists to extend the continuum of care for elderly fall patients beyond the hospital and emergency department, and prevent future emergency department visits due to falls.

Hawaiian / Pacific Islanders had the highest rate of hospital admissions and emergency department visits before a suicide attempt, but the lowest rate of mental health or substance abuse diagnoses.

Mazer - Amirshahi and colleagues found that between 2001 and 2010, the percentage of overall emergency department visits where an opioid analgesic was prescribed increased from 20.8 percent to 31 percent.

From 2008 to 2010, outpatient emergency department visits grew more slowly for Medicare patients being treated by PCMH practices than by non-PCMH practices.

Many cancer patients» Emergency Department visits appear preventable, Fred Hutch study finds May 30, 2017

To explore causes of hospital readmissions, researchers created a tool to identify and quantify a patient's feelings of uncertainty during their initial emergency department visit.

In addition to our comprehensive asthma clinic, we also offer a specialized Children's Asthma Wellness Program, designed for children who have had repeat emergency department visits for asthma, with a focus on supporting the patient's family and the primary care provider in managing the child's asthma in decreasing emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

«Overall, nearly half (47 percent) of zolpidem overmedication - related emergency department visits resulted in either a hospital admission or a transfer to another medical facility.

That is 35 % of the 1.365 million emergency department visits made each year for TBIs.

This cohort study estimates the proportions of emergency department visits attributable to symptoms of imminent ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, aortic dissection, and subarachnoid hemorrhage that end in discharge without diagnosis.

Prescriptions, nonmedical use, and emergency department visits involving prescription stimulants

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

The research, conducted by Pakalnis and fellow neurologist Geoffrey Heyer, MD, is rooted in a retrospective analysis of about 1300 emergency department visits from 2010 - 2014.

Those with adolescent - limited behaviour experienced significantly increased odds of health concerns including poorer overall health, hypercholesterolaemia, acute respiratory problems and wheezing, lower back pain and emergency department visits compared to participants with no antisocial behaviour.

They were also less likely to drop out of treatment and had fewer psychiatric hospitalizations and psychiatric emergency department visits, according to the report.

Identifying psychiatric medications causing high numbers and rates of emergency department visits among US adults

Estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state about 2.5 million U.S. emergency department visits were associated with traumatic brain injury in 2010, with rates increasing by about 70 percent over the previous decade.