Discharge instructions for emergency department patients: what …
Written emergency department discharge instructions, when used to complement verbal instructions, have been shown to improve communication and patient management. This …
Discharge of patients who have taken an overdose of opioids
Altogether 195 papers were found using the reported search, of which five presented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The author, date and country of publication, patient …
How do emergency physicians make discharge decisions?
Methods We conducted a real-time survey of staff ED physicians discharging consecutive patients from high-acuity areas of a tertiary care ED. We asked open-ended questions about rationale …
Association between delays to patient admission from the …
Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to …
Providing patients and carers adequate discharge instructions is an important task of healthcare professionals to ensure a safe discharge from hospital to home.1 Educating patients and …
Emergency department triage revisited - Emergency Medicine …
In addition, international variance in triage systems limits the capacity for benchmarking. The aim of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature pertaining to emergency department …
Teach-back of discharge instructions in the emergency …
Use of teach-back was not significantly associated with improved self-management and higher satisfaction with discharge instructions. Discharge conversations were generally shorter for …
Waiting times in emergency departments: exploring the factors ...
For each percentage point change in the following factors, the proportion of ED stays over 4 hours also increased: more inpatients with hospital length of stay over 21 days (0.07%, 95% CI …
BET 2: CARDIAC MONITORING IN ADULTS AFTER TASER …
A short-cut review was carried out to establish whether routine cardiac monitoring is necessary in the emergency department in adult patients who have received a Taser discharge. Thirty …
Emergency care for older people living with frailty: patient and …
Methods Older people (aged 75+ years) who were at least mildly frail and/or their carers, with current or recent experience of emergency care, were recruited from three EDs in England …