Sentences with phrase «emergency room patients who»

The experimental group comprised 55 emergency room patients who had concussions diagnosed by other means.

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And the prestigious Cleveland Clinic used the company's tools to identify the patients who were most at risk of potentially avoidable emergency - room admission, a step that enabled them to reach out to those patients proactively and provide them with care less expensively and more safely.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

a letter from a doctor to the president about his treatment of a «Poor» person... Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

It turned out that these were the people who also were generally on emergency room call so they were the ones that were fielding the occasional calls that would come in from the community to transfer patients.

When compared with patients who were cooled immediately after arrival in the emergency room, the patients who were chilled sooner fared worse: Twenty - six percent experienced a second cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital, compared with 21 percent of the comparison group.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

«Doctors in the emergency room harness the Glasgow Coma Scale to assess the extent of brain trauma in incoming patients — from a child who falls off the bed to a victim of a major accident,» Prof. Pick continued.

Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Patients who didn't seek follow - up care within a month received the lowest rate of care and had the worst health outcomes — demonstrating the need to improve follow - up with high risk chest pain patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, patients after they're discharged from the emergency room, Ko said.

After three hours with a reporter in his office, Bornstein got a call from his house — his great - aunt, who is also a patient of his, was headed to the emergency room across the street from his office.

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds hundreds of dollars in health - care costs, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Telephone calls are predictors of how likely patients are to enter the emergency room: clusters of phone calls over time were highly predictive of who ended up in the hospital over the course of the next year.

The software, called EMcounter, served as an easy form to collect «who, what and when» data for every patient visiting an emergency room.

Emergency rooms are testing many patients for markers of acute coronary syndrome who show no signs of having suffered a heart attack, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

«When we compared non-depressed patients to those who had been diagnosed with depression, we found those who were not depressed and yet had a higher risk for depression had worse healthcare experiences, increased use of the emergency room, poorer perception of their health status and a lower health - related quality of life than those who actually had depression,» Okunrintemi said.

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.

That's not news to malpractice attorney Leon Aussprung, a former physician who has handled scores of cases where patients have died of heart attack or suffered brain injuries because they didn't get proper care in the emergency room.

However, a 2009 paper reported three patients who were admitted to the emergency room with very negative effects including dizziness, vomiting and loss of consciousness.

And it's not just patients who benefit: In the emergency room at Nashville's Vanderbilt University Medical Center, when diffusers were installed to spread citrus scents, the portion of staffers who reported frequently experiencing work - related stress dropped from 41 percent to 3 percent.

The emergency room contains an abusive man and his girlfriend, a doctor who makes sure the audience understands what insurance companies do to patients, a pregnant woman, a woman who does not speak English, and Eddie Griffin providing some completely pointless comedic relief (especially considering the overall «seriousness» of the whole movie).

Patients who know something is deeply wrong — and appropriately seek immediate treatment at an emergency room — are sometimes brushed aside or sent home.

The former Hospital for Sick Children emergency room pediatrician lost his licence last year after he was found to have engaged in «very instrusive and coercive sexual activities» with a 17 - year - old girl who was not his patient.

In 2012, Attorney Satin achieved two of the five largest verdicts of the year — a $ 5.83 million verdict for the family of a patient who died after his primary care physician discontinued his aspirin regimen, and a $ 3,582,831 judgment for the mother of a 12 - year - old boy who died after an emergency room doctor failed to transfer him in time to treat a malfunctioning shunt.

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