Sentences with phrase «future emergency department visits»

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.

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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.

«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.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36