Sentences with phrase «of emergency department»

In an April 2015 study titled, «The Value Proposition of Retail Clinics,» Robert Wood Johnson cited research that said retail clinics and urgent care centers could appropriately handle 27.0 percent of emergency department visits.

(ii) Prevention of child injuries, child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment, and reduction of emergency department visits.

However, despite a clear relationship between the intervention and the rate of emergency department visits, it was not conclusive whether this was due to Triple P or unmeasured differences between the intervention and comparison groups.

EDDC data are based on the year of emergency department attendance.

Prevention of child injuries, child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment, and reduction of emergency department visits;

3 - 5 years experience is required The Clinical Manager is responsible for clinical and administrative operations of the Emergency Department / Urgent Care.

Under the direct supervision of the Emergency Department Pharmacist the Medication History...

Under the direction of the Emergency Department Intervention Team Social Worker, the Recovery Coach will help link peers in the Wellforce ACO to the recovery community and will work as a change agent in encouraging health, resiliency,...

Position Requirements: The Staff nurse, under the immediate supervision of the Emergency Department...

The Paramedic in the Emergency Department, under the guidance and direction of the Emergency Department Medical Director and the general supervision of the Emergency Department Director / Manager...

With my exceptional communication skills, calls response knowledge and dispatching expertise, I'd like to meet you in order to discuss how I may contribute to the success of your Emergency Department.

Assisted the Nursing Director of the Emergency Department (ED) with scheduling, payroll and operational needs of the Department's two hundred and fifty employees

Participated in reviews of emergency department to improve ER records for providing better healthcare

Director of Emergency Department ~ RI ~ This is a great opportunity for a seasoned Emergency Department Director to join a hospital that offers the latest advances in technology and a comprehensive range...

Our LA firm, The Law Offices of Michels & Lew, a Professional Law Corporation, is known throughout California for its work in the area of medical malpractice, and our attorneys are supported by a team led by Bradford S. Davis, M.D., former clinical director of the Emergency Department at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica.

The liability of the defendant department chairman was based upon his negligent hiring of the moonlighting defendant and upon his negligent supervision and management of the emergency department.

The third defendant physician was the Chairman of the emergency department who was not present but had hired the two defendant physicians.

Bradford S. Davis, M.D. has been our in - house Medical Director since 1994 and is the former Clinical Director of the Emergency Department at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica.

The move also enabled the expansion of the existing practices to include new specialties and the extension of the emergency department into a 24 - hour service.

As Clapperton and Cassell report, fractures are the most common injury, accounting for 85 per cent of hospital admissions and 47 per cent of emergency department presentations.

«But in terms of emergency department incidents involving energy drinks, that's something that has increased as energy drinks have become more popular.»

Capp's efforts have also been focused on another aspect of emergency department overuse: bounce - back visits.

As noted in the Times article, a 2012 study found that 23 percent of emergency department shootings involved a gun taken from security.

The observation unit is an area of the Emergency Department designed for short stays — longer than a typical ED visit, said Miller, but shorter than a hospital admission.

One recent study reported that the burden of headache was highest in females 18 - 44, where the 3 - month prevalence of migraine or severe headache was 26.1 %, and head pain was the third leading cause of emergency department visits.

The researchers plan to extend the study outside of the emergency department setting to see if the results apply to other categories of the general population.

«The results provide a better understanding of emergency department pediatric readiness, identify opportunities to continue to improve pediatric emergency care, and highlight the important role of pediatric emergency care coordinators in ensuring pediatric readiness of emergency departments.»

«We found that, in obese patients with asthma, the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for asthma exacerbations decreased by half in the two years after bariatric surgery,» says Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH, MGH Department of Emergency Medicine, the lead author of the study.

One study examined the rate of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for Medicare patients treated by patient - centered medical homes.

«Unintended consequences of emergency department information systems in U.S..»

Their findings were published online Friday in Annals of Emergency Medicine («Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems»).

«We wanted to determine the risk to help assess whether this population of patients could safely go home and do further outpatient testing within a day or two,» said Dr. Michael Weinstock, a professor of Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and chairman of the Emergency Department at Mt. Carmel St. Ann's Hospital.

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

However, these findings do suggest that policy initiatives could alleviate pressure on emergency departments by addressing gaps in the provision of dental and mental health care in order to treat this group of emergency department visitors at a lower cost elsewhere.

New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients under age 21.

And the number of emergency department admissions related to opioids in 2014 increased 113 percent from 2010.

«You're much more likely to have an immigrant caring for you than sitting up in front of the emergency department,» she said.

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

We're serving you outside of emergency departments and acute care, which is the most expensive part of our system, and we're not duplicating everything and doing everything new every time you walk in the door.»

The growing prevalence of older patients in ERs around the world suggests a need for careful scrutiny of current clinical practice and design of emergency departments worldwide.»

«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.»

At least 15 percent of emergency departments lacked one or more specific pieces of equipment as recommended by the 2009 guidelines, such as pediatric Magill forceps for removal of airway foreign bodies.

Hsia, R. Y., A. L. Kellermann, and Y. - C. Shen, 2011: Factors associated with closures of emergency departments in the United States.

Not exact matches

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.

Writing from the perspective of health - care providers working in trauma medicine, the researchers advised fans of Grey's Anatomy who found themselves or their family members in emergency departments after traumatic injury, that they could hold unrealistic expectations of their care and recovery.

Puerto Rico, which carried out roughly 1,000 relocations during the storm, bases its plan on guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security with help from the island's emergency preparedness and disaster management agency.

The Health and Human Services Department deployed assets to Texas and Louisiana ahead of Harvey's landfall, moving six teams of emergency medical responders to the Dallas area as well as teams to support medical personnel in both states.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, on the other hand, determines emergency procedures for its hundred - odd facilities on its own without standards set by state or local governments, and evacuated about 6,000 people due to Hurricane Harvey.

Upon detecting that intrusion, OPM launched an investigation — in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US - CERT) and the FBI — to determine its full scope and impact.

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.