Sentences with phrase «hospital emergency departments»

Each year, scores of kids are treated in hospital emergency departments for toy - related injuries.

Approximately 50 % of children who visit hospital emergency departments with a head injury are given a CT scan, many of which may be unnecessary.

Three interventions designed for follow up of patients who are identified with suicide risk in hospital emergency departments save lives and are cost effective relative to usual care.

For example, research suggests that people working in stressful situations, like hospital emergency departments, have better mental health if they have adequate social support.

The court also noted that the medical providers at hospital emergency departments were obligated to provide care to patients regardless of their ability to pay.

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.

The study, published online today in Pediatrics, found that from January 1990 through December 2012, almost 442,000 children were treated in United States hospital emergency departments for sports - and recreation - related eye injuries.

An overall picture could be gleaned from a review of crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), hospital emergency department records, death certificates, and media sources.

The Western Australian report also suggests that preschool children whose parents participated in Group Triple P between 1996 and 1997 were less likely to be involved in hospital emergency department visits than children in the comparison group.

Their findings, to be published in the forthcoming IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics» special issue on big data, could help hospital emergency departments nationwide plan better with regard to staffing and resource management, said Ram, the paper's lead author.

Their findings (PDF), to be published in the forthcoming IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics» special issue on big data, could help hospital emergency departments nationwide plan better with regard to staffing and resource management, said Ram, the paper's lead author.

Gani and colleagues analyzed a nationally representative sample of patients who arrived alive in U.S. hospital emergency departments with firearm - related injuries from 2006 through 2014.

Too many New Yorkers were (and still are) using hospital emergency departments for routine primary care.

It was developed to minimize stress related injury to fire, police, emergency medical services, disaster and hospital emergency department personnel — Critical Incident Stress.

On Saturday Oneonta Police responded to Fox Hospital Emergency Department for a reported stabbing victim.

The three types of fireworks that keep hospital emergency departments busy during this holiday period are bottle rockets, firecrackers and sparklers.

Hospital emergency departments focus on triage and stabilization and are not equipped to deal effectively with patients near the end of life due to illness or age, says Smith, the study's lead author.

The NEISS database provides information on consumer product - related and sports - and recreation - related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments across the country.

Research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) shows hospital emergency departments can play a vital role in lowering the number of suicide attempts among adults by as much as 30 percent.

«You'll be very fatigued and sweating a lot and thirsty — so those natural defenses against heat and dehydration are still working,» says Peter Shearer, MD, associate director of the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency department in New York City.

For instructions, we reached out to Melisa Lai - Becker, MD, chief of the Whidden Hospital Emergency Department in Everett, Massachusetts.

Halloween Hazards and Your Pets With Halloween quickly approaching, Dr. Joe from the Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital emergency department has some important reminders for us pet owners.

[3] On Sunday November 13, 2005, the plaintiff went to North York General Hospital emergency department, complaining of increased pain, swelling, and that the cast was too tight.

His many years of experience as the Clinical Director of the St. John's Hospital Emergency Department exposed him to a wide array of medical situations and afforded him expansive opportunities to analyze problems with a knowledgeable and critical eye.

Yet the conference heard that the first connection many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to palliative care may be through hospital emergency departments.

Formalised partnerships with Aboriginal community - controlled health services have been shown to reverse the increasing trend in Aboriginal hospital emergency department attendances.

Although a goal of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was to provide Medicaid patients with a source of nonemergency care outside of hospital emergency departments (EDs), researchers suggest that these newly enrolled patients will likely continue to look to EDs for treatment of chronic diseases and other nonemergency issues, despite state attempts to impose fees on ED visits.

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

«The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission («CPSC») estimates that each year, nearly 300 children younger than five years drown in swimming pools and spas and an additional 4,000 children that age present to hospital emergency departments for non-fatal submersion injuries.

Patients addicted to opioids often seek medical care in hospital emergency departments (EDs).

National estimates of the 10 leading causes of nonfatal injuries treated in hospital emergency departments, United States — 2010.

Going to a hospital emergency department may be a good idea if you can't see your usual doctor on the same day.

And with a growing array of sensors gathering visual, auditory and other information in homes, bridges, hospital emergency departments and everywhere else, the information deluge would only grow.

Every minute, someone comes into a hospital emergency department in the United States with sepsis, a life - threatening over-response to infection that damages tissues and organs.

David Cottrell, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leeds and one of the investigators, said: «Clinicians have not fully appreciated the risks facing children and young people who arrive in hospital emergency departments having suffered an adversity - related injury.

Developed by Dr Tristan Clark, an associate professor in infectious diseases at the University of Southampton and colleagues at the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, the «point - of - care» testing strategy can be carried out in hospital emergency departments and acute medical units.

From a patient's perspective, going to the hospital emergency department may be less expensive because patients can avoid costs of travel and time away from work.

More than 50 percent opted to receive care in the hospital emergency department because of convenience, access to technology and specialty care.

More than half of all Medicaid enrollees prefer the «one - stop shop» of a hospital emergency department to receive care for conditions that could be treated effectively at a primary care clinic, according to an article by a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

The Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme, which was set up in 2003, entails the capture of anonymized information on violent incidents treated in hospital emergency departments.

The study examined treatment for more than 1,200 patients at five hospital emergency departments — in Los Angeles; Baltimore; Kansas City, Missouri; Philadelphia and Phoenix.

Two casualties were taken to hospital emergency departments, and one needed surgery.

For babies with fever brought to a hospital emergency department, this approach might mean avoiding painful testing, hospitalizations and unnecessary antibiotics until potentially life - threatening bacteremia (bacteria in the blood), bacterial meningitis or urinary tract infection can be ruled out.

«Too often drug users who overdose may be headed straight to the morgue, not the hospital,» agrees Hallam Gugelmann, an attending physician at California Pacific Medical Center — St. Luke's Hospital Emergency Department in San Francisco.

Parents or guardians bringing a child to the Mott Children's Hospital emergency department should use the pediatric emergency department entrance located on E Medical Center Drive just past the main entrance to University Hospital and Parking Garages P2 and P3.

The study involved 71 motor vehicle accident victims, of whom half received the intervention (recalled the trauma briefly and then played Tetris) while waiting in the hospital emergency department, and half performed another task, all doing so within six hours of the accident.

The pediatric specialists in the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital emergency department are available 24 hours a day to care for children and young adults with medical problems that can not wait to be seen by their regular doctor.

«Our hypothesis was that after a trauma, patients would have fewer intrusive memories if they got to play Tetris as part of a short behavioural intervention while waiting in the hospital Emergency Department,» says Professor Holmes.

It may also be available at campus health clinics, Planned Parenthood facilities, hospital emergency departments, and urgent - care centers.

Research indicates that in 2003, Americans with back symptoms made about 4.8 million visits to hospital outpatient departments or to hospital emergency departments.