... new study, patients are receiving estimated doses of radiation from medical diagnostic imaging studies ...
... new study, patients are receiving estimated doses of radiation from medical diagnostic imaging studies ...
... likelihood of complications after leaving the emergency department." "It is critical that emergency patients understand their diagnosis, their care ... them. This will be critical to improving patient care in the emergency department." Patients can help themselves by asking ...
... discharging, stress testing, or referring emergency department patients for invasive coronary angiography, depending ... is regularly used to triage patients that would otherwise end up waiting for hours in the emergency department for a stress ...
... . The study included 130 patients who had at least three emergency department visits within one year in which they had a CT scan of the neck, chest ...
... as well as low- to mid-acuity emergency department patients". The researchers found that the centers employ significant ... fee-for-service patients. At the same time, despite having fewer emergency departments nationally, demand ...
... delivering more radiation. Seventy-two emergency department patients with non-specific chest pain were referred for MDCT of the whole chest. A total ...
... four emergency department patients in 2006 waited longer to be evaluated by a clinician than recommended at triage ... (initial process of prioritizing patients for treatment according to the seriousness of their condition). "Emergency departments are increasingly overcrowded ...
... . In addition, an imaging algorithm was introduced in which emergency department patients with a clinical suspicion of PE underwent ... radiography can change the practice pattern in the emergency department for patients with suspected PE. The use of V/Q ...
... ." During the study period, participating patients at the Emergency Department had their temperature measured by the ITDS and then ... measurements taken in the triage area of the Emergency Department. Patients who were identified with fever were managed with routine ...
... emergency department patients with shortness of breath and a risk of heart failure, physicians usually grab ... helpful in this subset of patients." Diagnosing them in the emergency department can put patients on the right pathway ...
... Hospital & Clinics. "Emergency departments have evolved to compensate as the 'safety net' for patients failed by a system ... up at EDs. Unsurprisingly, a system to link emergency department patients with primary care providers topped ...
... in Philadelphia, PA, included 383 emergency department patients who were asked three knowledge and three ... and pain, our results suggest that we may help emergency department patients better with targeted teaching about radiation ...
... are more costly to the health care system than other emergency department (ED) patients, say physicians and research scientists ... . The team followed 1,000 emergency department patients from Vancouver General Hospital for six ...
... have set targets for the time patients wait. Most (85%) of emergency department patients go home ... who were seen and discharged, nor were patients who attended emergency departments with high "left without being seen ...
