Helton and his colleagues analyzed date from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, the largest publicly available all-payer database of emergency department visits.
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Now, a study brings those two ideas together, suggesting that female heart attack patients are more likely to survive when tended to by female emergency department physicians compared with male emergency department physicians.
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"Emergency department crowding can be dangerous," Reznek added by email.
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Two patients come to my emergency department with identical symptoms.
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Some were heading to an overwhelmed emergency department in Tallahassee.
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It's palpable on the front lines in the emergency department.
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Now he was in the emergency department, his breaths ragged.
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Tara Rappleyea works in the emergency department at a hospital.
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The emergency department at M1 was run by medical students.
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"Depressed parents balancing chaotic work schedules and family routines may choose to seek care at the emergency department as opposed to general clinics because of the easier availability of the emergency department," Auger noted.
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Another study found that about $1 billion in annual emergency department spending was attributed to dental conditions, and 30 percent of emergency department visits for dental problems were made by people enrolled in Medicaid.
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"We typically use ice baths in our emergency department," Dresden said.
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The median cost to Medicaid for the emergency department visit: $941.
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The hospital will close its emergency department at 7 a.m. Friday.
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"It's definitely more crowded at my emergency department," Dr. Shearer said.
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Epworth Richmond's emergency department is sparsely populated on an October afternoon.
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Dana ended up spending the entire night in the emergency department.
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The data did not include outpatient visits or emergency department visits.
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Emergency department visits dropped 36 percent, and hospitalizations fell 13 percent.
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Last month was the busiest ever at the hospital's emergency department.
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Emergency department visits due to cannabis can be prevented, Wang said.
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"Over and above an elevated suicide risk, having an emergency department visit related to self-harm is a predictor for recurrent visits to the emergency department and greater use of health services," the study team writes.
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But when he had a seizure, he headed to the emergency department.
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But his bill from Orlando Regional Medical Center's emergency department is $20,000.
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For instance, at the Nemours Children's Hospital emergency department in Orlando, Fla.
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Sustaining morale among emergency department staff, she added, has been a challenge.
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Or does it stop when the patient physically leaves the emergency department?
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It is driving a drop in emergency department visits and preventable hospitalizations.
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We use ketamine every single day in our emergency department for painful procedures.
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Post-exposure treatment is available in almost every emergency department across the country.
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A 2011 report found that marijuana use contributed to 456,000 emergency department visits.
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"These simple steps can prevent many injuries and trips to the emergency department."
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For the study, researchers gathered patient information from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample.
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Lorinda Stahley, the nurse manager for the emergency department, approached the victims gingerly.
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"It's injuries serious enough to require trips to the emergency department," Roberts said.
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"People aren't self-quarantining because they can't," said Jason, an emergency department nurse.
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Every day dozens of people with flu symptoms come through our emergency department.
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Most kids, like mine, make it only so far as the emergency department.
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My husband exudes masculinity when I watch him work in the emergency department.
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He trained in internal medicine, but fell in love with the emergency department.
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Davis has been raising money to help St. Dominic Hospital expand its emergency department.
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Generally, emergency department teams try to identify sick individuals and give them timely attention.
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The pain was so great for one woman, she went to the emergency department.
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Two days later, she returned to the emergency department, again complaining of extreme pain.
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Those findings and others prompted the IHS to close Rosebud's emergency department in December.
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Data: Health Affairs, authors' analysis of Nationwide Emergency Department Sample; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios
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This has prevented 13 hospital visits to the emergency department so far, Seavey said.
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You can see the note from that first visit to the Emergency Department here.
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A required plan could include emergency department care, hospital-based care and prescription drugs.
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Can you imagine waiting in an emergency department for days for a hospital bed?
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"We focus on the swarm method," said Amy Updike, the emergency department clinical manager.
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More severe allergic reactions may require epinephrine or a visit to the emergency department.
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There are side effects in the emergency department setting, like vomiting or pulmonary aspiration.
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There's an emergency department a few blocks from our house in New York City.
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These complications can require additional physician visits, emergency department visits, hospitalization and even surgery.
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Miller was advised to visit his local VA emergency department, which he did immediately.
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ET inside the emergency department of the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.
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In September 2004, two men entered the emergency department at Sydney's St. Vincent's Hospital.
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My mom and step-dad rushed me to Glendale Adventist Medical Center Emergency Department.
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Ohio saw the biggest increases in emergency department visits from 2009 through 2014 — 119.1 percent.
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Baptist Hospital Beaumont is closing down entirely, including its emergency department, spokeswoman Mary Poole said.
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But after the switch, emergency department visits for preventable diabetes complications spiked for poor patients.
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An additional 3 million older adults sought care in an emergency department for a fall.
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They know about the family room in the emergency department in summer in North Philadelphia.
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Narrow network enrollees used the emergency department less, particularly for conditions treatable in office settings.
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In the emergency department, the patient mix will simultaneously be more sick and less sick.
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You can go on our city's website and see who's presenting to the emergency department.
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The emergency department isn't the place to deal with putting someone on long-term therapy.
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You can see the emergency department notes and the admission notes from that hospitalization here.
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At the high end, 25 percent of emergency department visit revenue went toward billing costs.
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Once, my mother and I arrived at the hospital's emergency department after another collapsed lung.
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The patients in the emergency department who need to be admitted are just sitting there.
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The bride, 43, is a psychiatrist in the psychiatric emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
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And they felt it was equally important for emergency department clinical staff to know both.
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The rest of the bill came from Chestnut Hill Hospital, which owns the emergency department.
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For instance, we must put in place better protocols in the emergency department so doctors and nurses are connecting overdose patients with the appropriate care outside of the hospital so they don't end up back in an ambulance being rushed to the emergency department.
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There's also this concept of "setting the dream," which I actually use in the emergency department.
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Nationally, the average rate of emergency department visits stood at 177.7 per 100,000 people in 2014.
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It's a very good day in the emergency department if I don't see a heroin overdose.
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Amid the chaos, there even came a rumor: An active shooter had entered the emergency department.
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Here's what happened when Colette went to the emergency department, as recounted by her father, Malcolm.
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The other $622 was the cost of seeing the doctor and using the emergency department itself.
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Then we started to search the local hospitals where we found him in the emergency department.
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Impact: Nearly 188,000 alcohol-related emergency department visits in 2011 involved patients aged 12 to 20.
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A dollar spent intervening at a hospital saves over $36, or $85033 in an emergency department.
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Within about 21285 minutes, the 225-bed emergency department was at more than quadruple its capacity.
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Yearly pediatric emergency department admissions among that age group for accidental intoxication increased by 143 percent.
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In five months, the hospital has reduced opioid use in the emergency department by 38 percent.
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Sempre says that the discounts also help keep patients healthier, and out of the emergency department.
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Only 3% of those who were seen in an emergency department were admitted to the hospital.
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In that world, who will staff labor and delivery, the trauma bay and the emergency department?
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Callers overwhelmed the cellphone of the emergency department director after his number was posted on Facebook.
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We were trying to keep them out of the main Emergency Department, which they would contaminate.
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As he was preparing to leave the emergency department, a new flu test came back positive.
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Only two people are waiting in the emergency department, a room lined with dozens of seats.
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"We can handle about 90% of what would normally be handled in an E.D. [emergency department]."
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Its pain was excruciating at home as well as on the way to the emergency department.
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He is chief of service of the emergency department at University Hospital of Newark, New Jersey.
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"The higher risk of disability following emergency department visits is likely related to the illness or injury that led these patients to seek care in the emergency department," said study co-author Dr. William Fleischman, an emergency medicine researcher at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.
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It all started when an 8-year-old boy came into their emergency department in Warsaw, Poland.
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"Quarantined in the emergency department," the doctor, Li Wenliang, wrote in an online chat group on Dec.
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It consists of the emergency department, the operating room, the ICU, and the rest of the hospital.
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She dialed 911 and was taken to the emergency department at UConn John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington.
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His emergency department, which mostly serves adults, has been trying to implement autism-friendly practices since 2014.
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Of autistic children who use the emergency department, almost 1 in 4 are sedated to keep calm.
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The new building will have about 70 beds with an emergency department several blocks away, officials said.
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Over the five-year period, over 2000 million emergency department admissions were linked to animal-related injuries.
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When Jacobs wasn't operating, he devised protocols that would help increase survival rates in the Emergency Department.
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Patients getting scheduled treatments also averaged six fewer emergency department visits and 1.5 fewer hospitalizations every month.
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At the same time, emergency department visits related to opioid use disorders went down by 31 percent.
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I worry that the emergency department will again become the only point of care for my patients.
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They found a total of 22006,220 emergency department visits for legal-intervention injuries between 22 and 33.
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The hospital has also converted its pediatric emergency department into a Covid-3003 isolation area, she added.
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Emergency Department spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told the agency the plane was carrying 170 passengers and crew members.
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The emergency department is required by law to see all patients regardless of their ability to pay.
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It also provides relief for the only other option in most places, the local hospital emergency department.
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Emergency department physicians note that older adults present unique, limiting challenges that further complicate pain management decisions.
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My experience was on the receiving end of the evacuation of the San Rafael Kaiser hospital in the emergency department by some very brave and reactive individuals who grabbed up all the patients from the emergency department, as flames were flickering through the parking structure across the street from them; drove them down by private car to the emergency department in San Rafael Kaiser in Terra Linda; and then scooped up the 70 or so inpatients and did the same.
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" —Stephen Knight, New York _____ "I have 20 years experience as a triage nurse in a psychiatric emergency department.
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According to the study results, 2000 percent of the kids were actually discharged directly from the emergency department.
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The researchers only found two studies of interventions meant to help reduce job stress in the emergency department.
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She's currently running a study based on emergency department data that she hopes will help clear things up.
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During this time, a number of individuals attempted to gain access to the emergency department and became disruptive.
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As readmissions have fallen, observation status stays and returns to the emergency department after a discharge have risen.
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Why aren't emergency department docs asking the people most in danger from guns about their access to guns?
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Under their plan, I would not pay them a copay when I turned up in their emergency department.
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And families and doctors have identified the emergency department as particularly deficient in how it serves autistic children.
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And despite being paralyzed when he got to the emergency department, told his neurosurgeon he would run again.
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Reducing readmissions, unnecessary admissions and Emergency Department visits could reduce the cost of chronic care by 10 percent.
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While at Roger Williams Medical Center, I cared for retired servicemen and women brought to the Emergency Department.
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PhotoCredit Earl Wilson/The New York Times Friday night in the emergency department is about what you'd think.
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When the patient and his wife arrived at the B.I. emergency department, Dr. Hale hurried to meet them.
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Reducing readmissions, unnecessary admissions and Emergency Department visits could reduce the cost of chronic care by 85033 percent.
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Initial reports suggest that the boy was discharged from the emergency department in spite of an unexplained fever.
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Still sleep deprived from a night spent in the emergency department, it started to seem kind of possible.
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The researchers also calculated what they would expect emergency department visits to look like with and without ARTS.
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And 19.8 percent of black hospice patients went to an emergency department, compared with 20143 percent of whites.
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A nurse practitioner from a nearby emergency department recently contacted her because they were already running out supplies.
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By law, hospitals in the United States must also stabilize and treat anyone arriving in an emergency department.
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And not every emergency department is capable of handling an extra critically ill patient during this ongoing pandemic.
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So instead of being rushed to a hospital ward, the patient had to remain in the emergency department.
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He was admitted to the NYU Langone Health — Cobble Hill emergency department in Brooklyn and put in isolation.
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"We are not seeing the 10% of sickest patients that we see in an emergency department," he said.
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There is more communication between clinic personnel and hospitals, emergency department physicians, and the specialists who treat comorbidities.
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Nationally, they found a total of 639,700 emergency department visits for bunk bed injuries between 2006 and 2015.
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Although the results were statistically significant, the study looked only at patients who went to an emergency department.
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The couple met in 2014 working in the emergency department at the Community Medical Center in Toms River.
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In addition, about 22 million pedal bicycle injuries accounted for 211 per 22019,000 of all emergency department injuries.
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Another 236,22007 children show up in a hospital emergency department to be treated for a firearm-related injury.
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The chance of visiting the emergency department, being readmitted to the hospital or dying would go up similarly.
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Should Clinton have gone to an Emergency Department Whether a person who almost-faints or faints should go to the emergency department depends on many factors such as the specific cause, whether they are recovering appropriately or have they injured themselves, if they have any underlying illness, and their age.
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The hardest part of getting addiction treatment in the emergency department may not be anything in the ER itself.
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As a result, many people feel they have nowhere else to turn except the safety net: the emergency department.
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Some hospitals here and there make their prices public (one in Michigan even posts its emergency department prices online).
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This summer, the state committed to assigning a peer coach to every hospital emergency department and footing the bill.
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As a safety precaution, the hospital emergency department at the hospital was locked down until about 4:30 p.m.
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These represent almost 25,23 emergency department visits for tympanic membrane perforations nationally during the same period, the researchers write.
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They had higher rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits than Centers for Disease Control rates for asthma patients.
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That expertise is unavailable at some rural hospitals but can be conveyed by video conference to emergency department physicians.
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Trivedi: Overall, we found 249 emergency-department visits that were associated with an electric-scooter use of some sort.
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Mr. Llewellyn, who was shown working in the emergency department at Woodhull, is a physician assistant, not a doctor.
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The right place can be email or video and usually not the emergency department for colds and sore throats.
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Initially, the man was treated in the hospital's emergency department for a migraine, but his symptoms did not subside.
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With overcrowding and more mental health patients, "there's an increase in violence in the emergency department -- absolutely," he said.
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These patients were compared with an age and sex-matched control group of 555 patients from the emergency department.
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The model suggested that ARTS really is to credit for the bulk of the drop in emergency department usage.
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Just in one month, we have between 50 and 80 presentations to the emergency department with drug-related issues.
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" The PPE shortage is especially bad when combined with what emergency department nurse Monica calls a "no-testing culture.
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Roughly 1 in 8 emergency department visits now stem from mental illness or substance use disorders, the data show.
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In Missouri, the state legislature passed a bill Friday to shield patients from the dysfunction of the emergency department.
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At the hospital, Jeong-whan was evaluated briefly by a triage nurse and sent to an emergency department resuscitation bay.
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Schaffner and colleagues are seeing more children with complications from the flu arrive at the emergency department in recent years.
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Reduction of rehospitalization, where people do not have to go to the emergency department, is a win-win for everybody.
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This week, the annual A&E statistics were published, giving details of emergency department attendances during 2015-2016 in England.
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Emergency department visits involving illicit use of buprenorphine more than tripled from 2006 to 2010, according to federal health officials.
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The public health department told her the only place she could get the injection was at the local emergency department.
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"There's a growing need," said Fareed Fareed, medical director of the emergency department at HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, New York.
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When his health did not improve upon his release, an ambulance transported him to another emergency department the next morning.
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From that fateful day in 2010, Bellezzo and Shinar went on to found the world's first emergency department ECMO program.
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For hangouts, he turned to McDonald's, public libraries and, for a while, the emergency department at New York Methodist Hospital.
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Researchers found that more than 90% of children burned by instant soup were discharged from the emergency department after evaluation.
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The program's efforts have lowered emergency department use, reduced the need for hospitalizations, improved chronic disease care — and saved money.
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One issue that's prominent: when does the clock stop on how long the patient has been in the emergency department?
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The groom's mother, who is retired, was a registered nurse in the emergency department at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill.
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Eldest daughter Evanmichel was a nurse working in the emergency department of Quality Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Stockton.
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They must also make co-payments for certain services, and pay a fee if they use the emergency department unnecessarily.
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The agreement required beneficiaries to keep medical appointments, take medications, avoid unnecessary emergency department visits, and participate in health screenings.
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"Ideally, we would be wearing full PPE for all patients that we're seeing in the emergency department," Schechter-Perkins says.
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As a result, in 2014, around 20 percent of inpatient emergency department cases led to surprise out-of-network bills.
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Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital's emergency department, shared a diagnostic report with colleagues on WeChat on December 30.
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The boy's health did not improve and the next day he was taken to another hospital emergency department by ambulance.
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We were frantic, so the first thing I did was just call every emergency department, in Houston and all over.
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Spending was lower on hospital outpatient services, including visits to the emergency department that do not lead to hospital admissions.
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We wonder what the critical gap was that led the family to call 911 or come to the emergency department.
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Precincts have been evacuated, structural decontamination has been performed, and officers were justifiably sent to the emergency department for evaluation.
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Peck said patients avoid trips to the emergency department in 80 percent of encounters when the nurse is using Call9.
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"In those cases, the parent should arrange for the patient to go to an emergency department and be evaluated," Jacobson said.
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In an average week, about 225,565 patients across the country are treated in an emergency department for a firearm-related injury.
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Ms. Kliff is soliciting patient bills from emergency department visits in the U.S. over the past five years (2012 to 2017).
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And hospitalizations and emergency department care for poisonings from opioids cost the United States more than $20 billion annually, HHS says.
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By the time the unnamed woman visited an emergency department, she had been struggling to stay upright, regularly falling without reason.
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In the same article, ProPublica corroborated that average wait times in the particular emergency department Ward went well over four hours.
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In the emergency department, the staff assumed the 59-year-old man complaining of chest pain was having a heart attack.
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New guidelines for doctors will help them treat migraine headaches that are severe enough to bring patients to the emergency department.
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And then patients don't always buy in, warned Dr. Gary Bubly, medical director for the Miriam Hospital Emergency Department in Providence.
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Legend has it, the first incarnation of the beverage was made for an emergency department nurse who needed to stay awake.
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She was sitting in the doctors' workroom, listening to one of her interns describe a young patient in the emergency department.
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Harborview Medical Center said in a statement Saturday the 31-year-old man was alert and talking in the emergency department.
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Sixty-five people were injured in the collision, said Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department at Karachi's main Jinnah hospital.
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The 28503 West Point graduate left the military in 22019 and in 2009 founded Align MD, an emergency department staffing company.
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Among all abortion recipients, only 3 percent ended up in the emergency department and 25 percent went back to the clinic.
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One of the four blasts in Jableh happened when a man walked into a hospital emergency department and blew himself up.
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When he was resuscitated the third time, doctors decided there was only one option: A rare, "last ditch" emergency department thoracotomy.
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The attack targeted the emergency department, where the body of a prominent lawyer shot dead earlier that day had been brought.
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Peng Bin-fei, a doctor from the emergency department at Nanchang hospital told PearVideo that this condition could prove life-threatening.
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The researchers examined differences in the patients' outcomes and survival when seen by either a male or female emergency department physician.
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This affects not just Amirshahi's emergency department, but other hospital workers, medical specialists, and paramedics in ambulances all over the country.
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For example, one project that repeats across health systems focuses on decreasing the time patients must spend in the emergency department.
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We in the emergency department will continue to come in at all hours, gown up and treat all who are sick.
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So the doctors sent all their patients to the emergency department instead, and physicians protested in the streets of the Hague.
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Rising prices, especially for prescription drugs, surgery, and emergency department visits, have been primary drivers of faster growth in recent years.
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Isn't that why the doctors' services and scans are billed at higher rates when they are performed in an emergency department?
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The bride's father is an emergency department physician at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke's hospitals in New York.
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He would not have uttered these two words had he been brought to virtually any other emergency department in the United States.
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"The emergency department becomes the de facto dumping ground for all mental health patients," said Gillian Schmitz, a San Antonio emergency physician.
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"Never be too embarrassed to tell an emergency department what you were really doing if you begin having possible symptoms," says Prause.
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Trauma centers require special certification to provide emergency care for patients suffering very serious injuries above and beyond a regular emergency department.
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"That was her one thing she wanted ... to be able to go to church on Sunday," said Emergency Department director Patrick Connor.
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Seventy percent of people were treated in the emergency department and released, but another 28% had to be admitted to the hospital.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2628, there were over 28503 million Emergency Department visits in the United States.
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Still, vasovagal is by far the most common, making up about two-thirds of syncope presentations in the emergency department, Pescatore says.
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IT IS MONDAY morning at Connaught hospital in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, and the accident and emergency department is abuzz.
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The instructions were lifted from those given by real emergency department doctors to patients and were translated into both Spanish and Chinese.
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"Stay at home and call your doctor," Kim Leslie, an emergency-department nursing director at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, told Business Insider.
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Crystal Marie McDaniels, Los Angeles I am a black woman, an emergency-department physician, and the director of the Detroit Health Department.
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She has a 10 year-old-son with autism whom she's brought into the Nemours emergency department numerous times over the years.
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"I think we would see emergency department visits decline if patients could get their follow-up questions taken care of," she said.
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"It was great for the patients, but hard on the staff," said Dr. Gary A. Parrish, the director of the emergency department.
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Cote is a registered nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan, working in the emergency department as the inpatient coordinator.
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Asthma accounts for 22019 million doctor's office visits, 439,000 discharges from hospital inpatient care and 1.8 million emergency department visits each year.
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For both stroller- and carrier-related emergency department visits, injuries were most likely to occur among male children under 1 year old.
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The case report details three unrelated cases within three months treated in the Moorfields Eye Hospital accident and emergency department in London.
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He advised that I come into the hospital that evening, to the Accident and Emergency department, for him to have a look.
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In a gripping video she made in Elmhurst's emergency department, where she works, Dr. Colleen Smith says the hospital is straining desperately.
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She doesn't work in an emergency department, which are being strained to the breaking point all over the country by coronavirus cases.
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In the emergency department, she was hustled into a room and hooked to a heart monitor; IVs were placed, blood was drawn.
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Some hospitals prefer not to use it in the emergency department and instead opt for more specific antidotes to poisonings and overdoses.
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When I walk through our Phoenix hospital's emergency department, I'm reminded of the global outbreak we really should be worried about: influenza.
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The states were picked based on the availability of information regarding motor vehicle accident injuries for which emergency department treatment was needed.
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At Helen Keller Hospital's emergency department in Sheffield, Alabama, earlier this month, a 20 year-old showed up with second-degree burns.
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The use of those services and medications for chronic conditions increased, while emergency department use decreased during the program's first two years.
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In April, Maryland's MedStar Health announced the immediate closure of inpatient pediatrics and the pediatric emergency department at Franklin Square Medical Center.
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The study team also looked at emergency department and nonemergency visits, long-term debt, operating margins, patient experience scores and hospital readmissions.
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Overall, patient experience scores, long-term debt ratios, hospital readmissions and emergency department visits were similar for affiliating and non-affiliating hospitals.
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The study also didn't examine other outcomes that might be influenced by winter weather, such as emergency department admissions or clinic visits.
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Overall, 745 patients, or 58 percent, received some type of pain relief in the emergency department, researchers report in Emergency Medicine Journal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1,000 emergency department visits a day are the result of prescription opioid misuse.
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Burstein, who regularly sees children and teens in the emergency department with suicidal behaviors, worries that the rates will continue to increase.
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However, our most powerful intervention from the emergency department cannot be a referral for someone else outside the hospital to follow up.
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At Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, the emergency department reported "many patients" who were injured or ill because of the weather.
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Those clinicians must have immediate access to the same symptom-relieving medications that would be administered in an emergency department or hospital.
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"Our ED [emergency department] is more expensive to operate than other San Francisco hospitals because we are a trauma center," she said.
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Over all, emergency department visits among low-income adults did not change significantly from 2013 to 2014 in any of the three states.
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After returning to the United States, the patient sought treatment in the emergency department of a hospital in Madison, but was not admitted.
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After two days, he went to the emergency department with large blood-filled blisters on his hand, which are known medically as bullae.
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While I hate to say this, these sorts of wait times are becoming more common as a result of Emergency Department volumes today.
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He is a doctor who works in the emergency department at a major university hospital and also teaches at the associated medical school.
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They also have more emergency department visits and hospital admissions for conditions that should be avoidable could be prevented with appropriate primary care.
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"Warm Handoff" pilot programs in certain states — for example — help overdose survivors go from the emergency department directly into a drug treatment program.
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Researchers came to that conclusion after reviewing emergency department and admission data from 8003 children's hospitals across the country between 2008 and 2015.
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" Blumberg said the young girl came to the hospital's emergency department on March 17 and was "suspected of having measles on March 19.
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The data came from the Nationwide Emergency Department Survey by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
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It outlines clear steps for establishing successful opioid addiction programs in an emergency department and information about the proper use of naloxone kits.
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Instead, they receive dialysis through the emergency department only when their symptoms become life-threatening, the study team writes in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Late night shelling in Libya's capital Tripoli killed two people and wounded eight, a Tripoli emergency department official said on Wednesday.
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That was more than double the 231.3 percent reduction in emergency department use among all state Medicaid members during the same time frame.
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When researchers parsed the Oregon data to see what impact expanding Medicaid had on emergency department use, there too they found an increase.
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"Every big pediatric emergency department that I know of has had extensive thoughts and planning in how we protect patients," Dr. Sobolewski said.
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A recent analysis shows that hospitals earn about $700 more on each elective admission than on each patient admitted through the emergency department.
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They may also help patients receive care in more appropriate and lower-cost settings, like a doctor's office instead of an emergency department.
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One study found that after Kentucky's Medicaid expansion in 2014, the rate of use of the emergency department for oral health conditions tripled.
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Anthem's viewers see not just the stark differences between kits and the broad range of experiences survivors may have at the emergency department.
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Health officials warn that anyone who has a reaction to synthetic cannabinoids immediately should call 911 or be taken to an emergency department.
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A few months ago, an ambulance brought a woman in her 893s to the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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The state's lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, appeared in the emergency department and shook hands with busy hospital workers; moments later, he was gone.
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Diagnosis The stretcher carrying the 19-year-old woman was hurried into the emergency department of Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz.
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Earlier on in the opioid epidemic, most overdose deaths and emergency department visits resulted among chronic pain patients who were taking prescription opioids.
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One New York doctor who spoke to VICE said that boxes of N95 masks had even been stolen from the hospital emergency department.
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Injury from wire grill brushes recently led to 1,600 emergency department visits, according to an article in the Journal Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery .
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"Emergency-department nurses and physicians cannot be both caregivers and law enforcement at the same time," the hospital said in a statement to CNN.
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Here, Murphy touches on an important concept in emergency department billing — the part that explains how bills for ER visits can be so high.
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Zeller, a psychiatrist who spent more than 22 years in Oakland, California running an emergency department dedicated to treating psychiatric patients, calls for change.
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They found that African-Americans who had more years of Medicaid eligibility as children had fewer hospitalizations and emergency department room visits as adults.
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Discharging a sick child from the emergency department with high fever on antibiotics which may not have been indicated warrants the attention of investigators.
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In a parking lot at the Schwabing Hospital, Souleyman Daitzik, his eyes bloodshot, paced back and forth near the entrance to the emergency department.
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Typically, the computer systems measure when the order is placed for the patient to leave the Emergency Department, but not when they actually go.
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A central motivation of the program was to reduce emergency department use, but over all, people were more likely to visit the emergency room.
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In a recent study, emergency department patients who used a combination of alcohol and cocaine died more often than those who used cocaine alone.
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She arranged for her parents to travel directly from the airport to the emergency department of the Yale New Haven Hospital, where she worked.
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Baicker says the evidence needs more scrutiny: "The next set of questions we're going to answer [will] dig into emergency department use," she said.
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The Netherlands strives to have the different parts of its system — the general practitioners, private insurers, home nurses, the emergency department — work together seamlessly.
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There were 2,000 emergency department visits related to its use in Broward County during that period; 15% were people under the age of 25.
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"Long before we receive data from death certificates, emergency department data can point to alarming increases in opioid overdoses," she said in a statement.
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Freedman's team studied 647 children ages six months to five years old who came to the emergency department with mild dehydration from stomach flu.
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The company says the policy goal is to reduce use of the emergency department, one of the most expensive places to receive medical care.
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They also worried that, during the shutdown, agencies weren't able to quickly implement an emergency Department of Homeland Security order to secure web traffic.
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A study of the effect on children found increases in primary care visits and vaccinations, and decreases in expensive emergency department and specialist visits.
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In Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic has reported seeing an unusual uptick in pediatric emergency department visits due to RSV this cold and flu season.
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And there are other good reasons to ask as well, said Dr. John P. Sanchez, an emergency department doctor at University Hospital in Newark.
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Nearly 95 percent of people who reported injuries were either treated in the emergency department and immediately sent home, or sent home without treatment.
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Federal prosecutors said HMA paid physicians in exchange for patient referrals and submitted inflated claims for emergency department fees to federal health insurance programs.
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"Harry is in (the emergency department) and not in a good way," his son John tweeted, taking over his father's Twitter account on Tuesday.
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Her regular clinic visits — and Medicaid coverage — make a world of difference: She hasn't made a trip to the emergency department in 18 months.
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Then his colleague in the emergency department casually mentioned that they had also admitted a patient for kidney dialysis who was overdosing on heroin.
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Data for the study was pulled from the CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which includes data on emergency department visits across the United States.
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Where will patients go for continuing care after they leave the emergency department, especially in a country where treatment options are often inaccessible or nonexistent?
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In 2013 (the last year data was collected), there were about 2.8 million TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States.
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"We have enough supplies and staff to meet the possible situation," said Seemin Jamali, head of the accident and emergency department at Karachi's Jinnah Hospital.
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A suicide bombing in the emergency department of a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on Monday left 63 dead and more than 50 injured, many seriously.
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He credits his turnaround to a relationship he launched in the emergency department with a "peer recovery specialist" — someone who had herself struggled with addiction.
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No one was killed in the attack near Hama, but it destroyed the hospital's emergency department, forcing all patients and medical equipment to be moved.
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For the current study, researchers examined data on 173 patients who received treatment for acute stroke in the emergency department during a one-year period.
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Late one night I was treating a young girl in the emergency department who rolled up her sleeve so I could take her blood pressure.
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"If the symptoms don't get better or they worsen you should call your health care provider, the urgent care or the emergency department," Harris said.
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Brooklyn public-school teacher Erin McCarthy went to the NYU Langone Health emergency department in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, after experiencing symptoms associated with the coronavirus.
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Researchers studied deaths, emergency department visits and hospitalizations related to firearms before and after 915 gun shows in California and Nevada from 2005 to 2013.
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The presenters highlighted the different ways patients might come to the hospital, through the emergency department and by ambulance, in a number of different conditions.
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Working as an emergency physician for 20 years has allowed me to see the wax and wane of coverage and use of the emergency department.
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His emergency department at Yale, he said, has seen patients with flu symptoms who are unnecessarily concerned that they may be infected with the coronavirus.
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In August, a 5-week-old previously healthy infant girl was brought to the hospital emergency department because of a fever and an unusual rash.
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"About 193 children a day die or are medically treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound in the U.S.," Fowler said by email.
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Of more than 383 million injuries reported in the study period, 130,797 involved powered-scooter accidents, accounting for 5.3 per 260,272.4 U.S. emergency department injuries.
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Boys and older children also accounted for the largest share of nonfatal firearm injuries treated in the emergency department (84 percent and 88 percent respectively).
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The authors find that naloxone access laws lead to more opioid-related emergency department visits, the premise being that naloxone access laws increase opioid overdoses.
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"Gail D'Onofrio's work has shown that initiating medically-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders in the emergency department is feasible and works," Choo told me.
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For data, Marcus and his colleagues turned to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's California State Ambulatory Surgery Databases, Emergency Department Databases and State Inpatient Databases.
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The fire broke out after the aircraft's landing gear did not open properly, and was later brought under control, emergency department head Pir-Hossein Kolivand said.
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With no pulse or blood pressure, paramedics assumed he was dead, but an emergency department physician at Lehigh Valley Hospital wasn't about to give up hope.
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On May 25, 2013, de los Reyes returned to Overlake's emergency department in what he said was "unspeakable pain," and tingling in his waist and legs.
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She's seen patients who were waiting in line at an emergency department and were waiting for so long that they logged in to talk to her.
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Bicycling exclusively or extensively on the sidewalk compared with riding sometimes or always in the street was also associated with emergency department visits for bicycling injuries.
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I see patients come in the emergency department, some of them critical and on the edge of life and death and I know that was me.
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At least 12 people were killed by the attackers, the head of Iran's emergency department, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, was quoted as saying by state broadcaster IRIB.
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The emergency department at Santa Rosa Memorial has received about 60 patients, two of whom are burn patients in critical condition, according to St. Joseph Health.
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These are straight-forward reforms based on my experience working in the emergency department and alongside Disaster Medical Assistance Teams and the U.S. Army in Haiti.
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I asked the audience of emergency nurses to raise their hand if he or she had ever been the victim of violence in their emergency department.
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Forrester and his co-authors used the World Health Organization's International Classifications of Diseases to identify those who visited the emergency department with animal-related injuries.
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She's seen patients who were waiting in line at an emergency department and were waiting for so long that they logged in to talk to her.
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In carriers, about 48 percent of children were diagnosed with soft-tissue injuries at the emergency department and 35 percent with traumatic brain injury or concussion.
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Sometimes, before I interview new patients, while I'm waiting for them to be transported from the emergency department to the medical floor, I play a game.
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"Eleven brought dead and 40 injured brought to hospital," Dr. Seemin Jamali, Head of Emergency Department at the Jinnah Hospital in Karachi told Reuters by phone.
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"Our hospitals are already stretched to capacity," said C. Ryan Keay, the medical director of the emergency department at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash.
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Lenox Hill Hospital, which takes up a full block at East 77th Street, wants to expand its maternity ward and emergency department, along with other upgrades.
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Chien says he sometimes sees the same patient dozens of times every year in the emergency department where he works, often for problems that aren't emergencies.
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My friend Dana arrived at Bloomington Hospital's emergency department with a problem that many people confront after below-the-belt surgery or radiation: a bowel blockage.
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The care delivered in a doctor's office is often the same care the emergency department (ED) delivers at a cost that's three to four times higher.
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"Usually, just like the flu, it's symptomatic treatment and supportive treatment," Kim Leslie, an emergency-department nursing director at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, told Business Insider.
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The report found that emergency department visits due to suspected opioid overdoses continued to climb -- about 30% -- from July 2016 to September 2017 across the country.
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Shielding is used for most of the 70,000 X-ray procedures performed annually at Lurie in a variety of settings, from orthopedics to the emergency department.
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The fire broke out after the aircraft's landing gear did not open properly, and was later brought under control, emergency department head Pir-Hossein Kolivand said.
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Although pediatric emergency department visits decreased nearly 3 percent and admissions fell 15 percent, pediatric transfers increased 36 percent over the 10 years, the study found.
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"Long before we receive data from death certificates, emergency department data can point to alarming increases in opioid overdoses," said CDC Acting Director Dr. Anne Schuchat.
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He saw a patient who had first been treated in the emergency department for pain and bruising after falling on her back down winter-slick steps.
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It has provided hospitals with disinfection protocols, such as operating the UV robots near the emergency department or in ambulances if suspected coronavirus patients were present.
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They excluded students who went to the emergency department more than 24 hours after the injury or who were hurt badly enough to require a hospital admission.
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"A lot of our patients are from many different countries and travel," Kim Leslie, an emergency-department nursing director at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, told Business Insider.
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In the diabetes study, annual emergency department visits rose by 29 percent overall after people switched to high-deductible plans but climbed 22017 percent for poor patients.
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On average, out-of-network emergency department doctors were paid nearly 2.7-times what in-network doctors were paid for the same services, according to the research.
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Shelter staff took the teen to a hospital emergency department that morning where he was treated and released to the shelter the same day, the statement said.
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"However, we believe this situation highlights the issue that emergency department nurses and physicians cannot be both caregivers and law enforcement at the same time," it said.
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Perry, 28, documented the trip to the hospital on his Instagram Stories, starting with a photo which appeared to show him arriving at the UCLA Emergency Department.
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There is little if any national data on the problem, but many toxicologists and emergency department doctors suspect that it is more widespread than scattered reports suggest.
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The authors also call for research into better ways to assess mental health in the emergency department and to connect emergency departments with community mental health services.
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"We know this is actually an underestimate of stroller and carrier injuries, because it's only the ones that warranted a trip to the emergency department," she said.
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Ideally, such a registry would use fingerprints and facial recognition software so an emergency department can speedily identify the latest preferences of an unconscious patient, he said.
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In one study, people on Medicaid increased their emergency department use by 0.41 visits per person, or 40 percent relative to the group who didn't get Medicaid.
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About a third of older adults fall each year, resulting in about 2.5 million emergency-department visits, 700,000 hospitalizations and approximately $21625 billion in health care costs.
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Some 325 patients walked into the E.R. last Monday — "the record, as far as I can recall," said Dr. Andrew C. Miller, who runs the emergency department.
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Health officials warn that anyone who has a reaction to synthetic cannabinoids, such as severe bleeding, should call 911 or be taken to an emergency department immediately.
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Shelter staff took the teen to a hospital emergency department that morning where he was treated and released to the shelter the same day, the statement added.
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One study found that black patients were significantly less likely than white patients to receive pain medication in the emergency department, despite reporting similar levels of pain.
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Dr. Zachary Meisel, an author of the Leonard Davis review, uses a drug database when he practices in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania emergency department.
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When researchers at the emergency department tested the technology on 161,000 emergency calls from the Danish capital in 2014, Corti was 93% accurate in identifying cardiac arrest.
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"What this new report does is, this shines a brighter light on one particular facet of the epidemic, namely emergency department visits arising from overdoses," Alexander said.
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Researchers looked at how often nurses did this and also examined how often patients received pain drugs within 30 minutes of being seen in the emergency department.
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The researchers identified 9,973 cannabis-related emergency department visits at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital from 2012 to 2016, a more than threefold increase in such visits.
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It's also possible that at least some of the kids had a lung condition prior to their initial visit to the emergency department with a respiratory illness.
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The report shows that emergency department visits due to suspected opioid overdoses continued to climb -- by about 30% -- from July 2016 to September 2017 across the country.
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Preventable poisonings in children result in more than 60,000 emergency department visits and about 1 million poison center calls across the United States every year, the study notes.
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"A lot of our patients are from many different countries and travel," Kim Leslie, an emergency-department nursing director at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, previously told Business Insider.
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But a previous study observed an estimated 11,704 emergency department visits for these types of injuries between 2002 and 2010, with 83% of them caused by a razor.
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Our hospital emergency department was placed on lockdown — which is a standard safety measure we initiate when our hospital treats someone who has been a victim of violence.
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A heart attack that goes unnoticed can be detected later, when patients get an electrocardiogram (EKG) during a routine doctor visit or a visit to the emergency department.
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In high-deductible plans, primary care check-ups tend to have lower costs, but patients typically pay more for things like specialists, emergency department visits and hospital care.
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"That was her one thing she wanted … to be able to go to church on Sunday," explained the hospital's Emergency Department director, Patrick Connor, during Monday's press conference.
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Overdose survivors who are admitted to the emergency department in the state's hospitals are also now being offered buprenorphine and instant entry into ongoing treatment when they leave.
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About 53% of traumatic brain injury-related emergency department visits among children are attributable to consumer products, found the study published in the journal Brain Injury on Monday.
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That's difficult in an emergency department but ... if you slow down a bit, and give them a bit of time, in the long run, you will save time.
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Ayman Ahmed Mathkoor, the health director for Hajjah Province, said the airstrike on Monday had destroyed the emergency department of Abs Hospital, killing 15 people and wounding 20.
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The average price tag for a surprise bill related to care at an emergency department was $628 in 2016, up from $2023 in 2010, according to the study.
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They also ranked last, by far, in whether practices had arrangements so that patients could see a doctor or nurse after hours without going to the emergency department.
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The doctors don't want to be a GP, they want to set up in the emergency department or do something where they have a little bit of adrenaline.
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"If there's any shortness of breath immediately call your health care provider, a local urgent care or the emergency department," said American Medical Association president Dr. Patrice Harris.
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Those benefits exclude coverage for dentures, root canals and crowns, which could challenge some enrollees' ability to maintain good oral health and lead to greater emergency department use.
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In 2014 alone, almost 3 million TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths were reported in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were approximately 2.8 million incidents involving traumatic brain injury emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths in 2013.
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Among about 45 million emergency department visits identified in the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Program, which includes 16 states, a total of 119,198 were suspected opioid overdoses.
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"That was actually quite a surprise to us," Rice said, and this could be because some patients receive the majority of these IV fluids in the emergency department.
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This phenomenon is "under the radar" because users often do not present to the emergency department and so there is no good data on how common it is.
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Of the 20 evaluated at the medical center, 16 patients were discharged from the emergency department, and four were admitted and were in fair condition, a spokeswoman said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The very thought of visiting a hospital emergency department is stressful enough for many people, even without the discomfort or pain of an examination or treatment.
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He worked in an emergency department, a demanding schedule that he blamed for his divorce a few years later, after the birth of two sons, Adam and Dean.
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"We now have enough vaccine for meeting the needs [of the population]," said Sylvain Aldighieri, deputy director of the emergency department at the WHO's Pan-American Health Organization.
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"We were just told that there were two patients down in the emergency department who were critically unwell and they would be coming up to the unit," Clark said.
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After her mother took her to the emergency department at Jackson Hospital, doctors informed the 30-year-old that she had a massive cyst in one of her ovaries.
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"To call into question the use of a substance administered by a doctor in a hospital emergency department to combat a severe allergic reaction is beyond disappointing," Brennan said.
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Photo: Getty ImagesA sobering new study out Monday suggests that many preteens who visit the emergency department could be in dire need of help to address their suicidal ideation.
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To learn more, Daoust and colleagues studied 386 adults who had been discharged from an emergency department with an opioid prescription, 80% of whom took at least one pill.
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Between 2005 and 2015, heat-related emergency department visits rose by an average of 67 percent for African Americans, 53 percent for Asian Americans and 63 percent for Hispanics.
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"Our results suggest that adolescents who present at the emergency department after self-harm would benefit from assessment for mental health or substance misuse disorders," the study team writes.
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They looked at the electronic medical records of 185 patients referred by the emergency department to the intimate partner violence (IPV) support program between January 2015 and October 2016.
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Shakira Bandolin, Emergency Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA For many of my patients, the emergency department is their lifeline, since we see patients despite their insurance status.
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I had been in the emergency department since 2005… You see patients requesting earlier and earlier refills, or overdosing or with acute intoxication or acute withdrawal from opioid medication.
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When I saw that your 90-year-old father was in our emergency department, after being resuscitated while on home hospice, I assumed that I understood what had happened.
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One ER nurse in Virginia described her hospital as "exceptionally chaotic," with an emergency department where potential Covid-19 patients were sitting next to patients with other health conditions.
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Similarly, exposure to Oregon's first, unrecognized case of Covid-19 caused dozens of emergency department personnel at Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro to go into home quarantine.
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The heavily shared interview from the March edition of the local state-run magazine, People, was with Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department of Wuhan Central Hospital.
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Several local agencies, including the city emergency department, the cultural and tourism department, and the market regulators, have launched a joint investigation into the accident, according to the statement.
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Rachel Patzer, PhD, director, Center for Health Sciences Research, Emory University, Atlanta, via Twitter: My spouse is a physician in the emergency department, and is actively treating coronavirus patients.
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Dr. Moneesh Bhow, the medical director of the emergency department at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, said the increase in patients suffering from heat-related illnesses was notable.
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Altogether, the researchers analyzed more than 34 million emergency department as well as inpatient and observation admissions, using data from every acute-care hospital in Massachusetts for 10 years.
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Co-prescribing naloxone has been found to reduce emergency department visits, and may help patients become more aware of the potential hazards of opioid misuse; and most important. 2.
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In reality, our immediate response to a crisis is often to do something about the setting or place we see the biggest issue — in this case, the emergency department.
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Barely 5 percent of these riders used helmets (a similar percentage of riders in the emergency department reported helmet use, though helmet status was unknown in 63 percent of cases).
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I'm wheeling through a cut-out-and-keep tourist map of London's iconic skyline to end up here, outside the Accident and Emergency department of one of London's busiest hospitals.
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"As a result, patients who choose an in-network ED [emergency department] may discover later that the physician who treated them wasn't in their insurer's network," according to the authors.
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With 80 patients ahead of him, he waited several hours but was immediately taken into the emergency department after he said he couldn't feel his pinky finger anymore, he says.
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But Seattle hospital staff told her their emergency department wasn't equipped to do the forensic test, and instead she would have to travel to another hospital about an hour away.
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Sadly, each year, millions of Americans over the age of 22019, more than one out of four, experience a fall resulting in 2.8 million emergency department visits and 800,000 hospitalizations.
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Elderly patients who get treated for illnesses or injuries in the emergency department (ED) are at risk of increased disability for up to six months afterward, a recent study suggests.
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That is why Mr Tennant spends so much time on doorsteps opposing the decision to close the emergency department at the local hospital and touting the need for better schools.
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"In an emergency, a patient is often unable to choose the emergency department, the physicians or the ambulance service," Steinbrook, author of an editorial accompanying the study, said by email.
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But a review of medical records of older patients found that 38 percent of in-person visits, including 27 percent of emergency department visits, could have been replaced with telemedicine.
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For every patient that visits an emergency department after a disaster, there are countless more struggling to simply sustain their health or even make it to a health-care facility.
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In Jableh, two blasts struck the bus station, then suicide attackers blew themselves up near an electricity administration building and at the entrance to the emergency department of a hospital.
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The meeting with the emergency department physician for heart attack patients often can be brief, she added, with the majority of care being after hospital admission and by other doctors.
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In addition, a model program in the state, AnchorED, has successfully used certified peer recovery specialists to connect overdose patients to treatment at a critical intervention point—the emergency department.
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Trust is also critical for patient satisfaction, and makes it more likely that patients keep seeing the same doctor — which can have other positive effects, like fewer emergency department visits.
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She said she and her teenage daughter, who'd also started showing symptoms, were told to sit on a bench outside the tent, just near the entrance to the emergency department.
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At St. Mary's Hospital in Central London, the computer systems were back up and running and the accident and emergency department appeared to be processing patients in an orderly fashion.
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The data showed that among about 91 million emergency department visits identified in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, which includes 45 states, a total of 142,557 were suspected opioid overdoses.
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The new CDC report had some limitations, including that the data sources could have underestimated or overestimated opioid overdoses based on differences in how hospitals coded their emergency department visits.
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She told a story of one mother who took her baby to the emergency department and asked if she could breast-feed while the baby was having a procedure done.
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Their case report looks at three separate incidents over a three month period in which patients showed up in the hospital emergency department with eye injuries resulting from a Nerf gun.
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Furthermore, the estimate from their data is that Emergency Department volumes have increased by almost 25 percent in the past 10 years and approximately 60 percent in the past 20 years.
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They also point out that hidden pharmaceutical ingredients may be one reason why supplement use is associated with 23,000 emergency department visits and 2,000 hospitalizations in the United States each year.
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"These are the first-ever guidelines for managing migraine in the emergency department (ED)," Dr. Mia Minen of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, told Reuters Health by email.
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Every 10 percent absolute increase in emergency department occupancy rate was associated with a 17 percent reduction in the odds of achieving the 25-minute door-to-imaging goal, researchers calculated.
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The researchers studied 83 families of children ages 2 to 10 and their parents or caregivers who went to an emergency department after a motor vehicle collision in 2004 or 2005.
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In recent weeks one trust has abruptly shut an emergency department to children because it was found to be unsafe; another said it was considering delaying all surgery on obese patients.
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Days later, she developed a rash, was seen at Seattle Children's Emergency Department, and a seasoned pediatrician in his late 60s was the one who figured out that she had measles.
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Orange County, which has a population of about 379,000, said it recorded 943 opioid-related emergency department admissions in 2014 and 44 deaths from overdoses involving opioid pain relievers in 2015.
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It must shake loose a longstanding conviction that opioids are the fastest, most surefire response to pain, an attitude held tightly not only by emergency department personnel, but by patients, too.
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As president of the Emergency Nurses Association, I am calling for nationally consistent policies and clear protocols for identifying victims of human trafficking, and mandatory training of all emergency department personnel.
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Coming full circle back to the tariffs, the White House must leverage them to eliminate overcapacity in the steel industry or we will be back in the emergency department yet again.
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In my job in the emergency department, in my role on the Wisconsin Controlled Substance Board and as a medical regulator, I have witnessed more tragedy than I care to recall.
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The 1986 West Point graduate left the military in 2006 and in 85033 founded Align MD, an emergency department staffing company that provides staffing services at 47 hospitals in nine states.
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If you are attacked by an animal, Forrester, Stallones and Holstege all advise seeking immediate medical attention, whether from an emergency department, a primary care physician or a poison control center.
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These patients have needs that are simply not being met anywhere else so they come – or are brought – to the only place that does not turn anyone away: the emergency department.
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New York (CNN)At Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in New York, the ICU is at capacity, patient beds line the hallways of the emergency department, and the morgue is overflowing.
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The goal is to make sure employees, especially those working in the emergency department or who might care for critically ill patients, are trained correctly and have the right protective equipment.
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Hospitals are already filled with coronavirus patientsA nurse who works in the emergency department at the New York University Medical Center in Manhattan told Business Insider that patients were streaming in.
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VICE reached out to Dr. Ken Starnes, an emergency department doctor based in Missouri, to learn why the decision to keep liquor stores open could be such a surprisingly important one.
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" Fox said Saggar will not be reinstated as CEO, but that GlassRatner is "seriously considering reinstating him as Director of the [emergency department] if he is willing to accept that position.
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There, she identifies patients in the emergency department who might be willing to detox and try rehab, including taking Suboxone, the maintenance medication she can prescribe before they leave the hospital.
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Jonathan's mother, Ashley Benko, is a nurse in the University Medical Center's emergency department, a spokesman for the hospital said, and his uncle, Michael Benko, works as a respiratory therapist there.
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Two and a half years ago, he met Ada Rubin, who works in the emergency department of N.Y.U. Langone Health, and was delivering a specimen to the lab next to his.
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With 55.5 million Medicare patients in 2023, one-third did not receive the recommended vaccinations, resulting in 674,000 avoidable visits to the Emergency Department (ED) and hospital, and 50,21625 avoidable deaths.
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"This isn't just about having food on your table but taking care of your overall health and staying out of places like the emergency department," she said in a telephone interview.
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Expansion continues to strain networks and has led those in expansion states to utilize the emergency department for non-urgent conditions, rather than wait for access to their regular medical professionals.
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Although edible cannabis only made up 0.32% of sales in Colorado from 2014 to 2016, 10.7% of cannabis-related emergency department visits at UCHealth University of Colorado were due to edibles.
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It's an oral testimony by Dr. Kevin Menes, who was in charge of the emergency department of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas the night Stephen Paddock opened fire on a concert.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Tuesday but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, the head of Iran's emergency department said on state television.
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"We believe this situation highlights the issue that emergency-department nurses and physicians cannot be both caregivers and law enforcement at the same time," the hospital said in a statement to CNN.
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"Every year we review instances in which infants die suddenly and unexpectedly," said Dr. Kathryn McCans, an emergency department physician at Cooper University Health Care Hospital and chairwoman of the review board.
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Usually, a patient is prescribed just a handful of pills by a doctor at the emergency department to tide them over until the patient can visit his or her primary care physician.
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Recently published results of the Gynuity pilot project showed that 8 percent of their patients who received abortion medication sought follow-up care at a local urgent care clinic or emergency department.
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In the United States, more than 800,000 traumatic brain injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths occur in children every year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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She then went to the pediatric emergency department at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, where she was diagnosed with a second-degree burn that had wrapped around her neck.
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Patients who recently traveled to China get an isolation roomLast week, Leslie said, a man came into the emergency department at Swedish Hospital saying he was sick and had recently visited China.
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LONDON (Reuters) - At least 12 people have died in twin attacks in Tehran on Wednesday, the head of Iran's emergency department, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, was quoted as saying by state broadcaster IRIB.
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According to the Justice Department, HMA, beginning in 2008, defrauded government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid by illegally pressuring and inducing doctors into increasing the number of emergency department patient admissions.
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Black hospice patients were significantly more likely than white patients to be admitted to a hospital, go to an emergency department and to disenroll from hospice prior to death, the study found.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos "is proud to work with the President in taking decisive action to help students and parents during this national emergency," department spokesperson Liz Hill said in a statement.
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There, an estimated 20203 to 400 people came through the doors of the emergency department each day, and 90% of people were seen in the emergency room within four hours, she said.
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"We have had an almost 20% increase in our emergency department visits in just the last few weeks," said Dr. Purva Grover, the medical director of Cleveland Clinic Children's pediatric emergency departments.
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To assess which patients may be more or less likely to receive pain medication, researchers examined data on 1,289 people treated in an emergency department in Melbourne in July and August 30.
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For the study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers also looked at the relationship between cannabis sales reported to the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division and emergency department visits.
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The study found that when cardiology markets are more concentrated, these kinds of patients are more likely to have heart attacks, visit the emergency department, be readmitted to the hospital or die.
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The study, published Wednesday in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, found that short-term exposure to high ambient air pollution corresponded with a rise in visits to the children's psychiatric emergency department.
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But HRRP does not count emergency department visits or so-called observation stays as readmissions, so the researchers wondered if total hospital revisits for these conditions had really changed or just shifted category.
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And unfortunately, people who can't afford medications are more likely to need more emergency department (ED) treatments and hospital admissions, study co-author Lisa Ambrose from Spectrum Health Hospitals, Michigan told Reuters Health.
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But researchers calculated that mentors saved roughly $6,045 a year in avoided costs from hospitalizations, intensive care, emergency department visits and lost wages for parents who missed work to tend to their kids.
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Research shows children with autism are much more likely to seek mental health treatment in the ER. Meanwhile, the number of adult autistic patients using the emergency department has increased in recent years.
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"They want to crush the committee," said Hla Ohn Mar, 21, one of the sacked leaders, speaking in the emergency department of Thingangyun hospital, which was crowded with young workers on Monday afternoon.
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Visiting your family physician for an annual check-up is quite different than being admitted to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy or going to the local emergency department (ED) with chest pain.
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Right now Rabrich says that every day the emergency department is fielding a couple dozen calls and five or 10 visits from panicked people wondering if they should get tested for Covid-19.
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Their recently acquired skills could have great value in comparison to those of a specialist in dermatology or radiology who may be called in as reserves in the emergency department at some point.
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Kristin Monesmith, an emergency department nurse for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is stranded in Peru, previously told The Hill that the U.S. consulate has provided no informative guidance.
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At Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, where CNN gained access Sunday, the ICU was working at capacity, patient beds lined the hallways of the emergency department and the morgue was full.
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"This is the most challenging winter, in terms of exposure, that I've ever seen," said Dr. Brooks Moore, the assistant medical director of the emergency department at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's public hospital.
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A follow-up study is looking at emergency department and urgent care cases around San Diego that don't lead to hospitalization, such as lacerations or fractures that can be fixed quickly, Kobayashi noted.
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My patient — a jogger, a gardener, a grandfather with stories to delight children for days — could barely move the right side of his body by the time he arrived at the emergency department.
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Level I centers can provide total care for every aspect of injury while Level V centers have basic emergency department facilities and can prepare patients to be transferred to higher levels of care.
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Other programs across the country, such as the ED-BRIDGE in California, have taken similar steps to expand access to treatment by starting patients on buprenorphine treatment on-demand in the emergency department.
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The doctor in the emergency department empathically told us he thought my grandmother was dying and recommended we focus on ensuring that the short time she had left was as comfortable as possible.
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Still, 2 percent of those injured by police died, 5 percent required hospitalization, and the other 93 percent were treated in the emergency department and released, according to a report in Injury Prevention.
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The authors analyzed emergency department data collected from 2000 to 2017 by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), on injuries involving all three types of vehicles.
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Because the study only included kids treated in the emergency department for respiratory problems, the results might not be the same for all kids treated by primary care providers, Verhagen, said by email.
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"The minor's health did not improve after being transferred back to the shelter so on the morning of April 22, 2019, the minor was taken to another hospital emergency department via ambulance," she said.
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In Texas, the average cost of treating common conditions at a freestanding emergency department is 22 times greater than treatment at a doctor's office, and 19 times more than at an urgent care center.
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So the researchers behind the study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at medical records from patients who visited the emergency department of the UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital from 2012 to 2016.
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This partnership resulted in an 18.6 percent drop in asthma-related emergency department visits among children in the region and an 18 percent drop in hospital admissions among a group of especially complex patients.
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"This does not mean that these patients should have avoided the emergency department or that they should have been hospitalized," Fleischman, who completed the study as a researcher at Yale University, added by email.
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Amanda Self, the suspect's daughter-in-law and a nurse manager in the emergency department at CaroMont Regional Medical Center, also died in the crash, according to a statement from CaroMont Health in Gastonia.
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"They looked for diagnostic codes for child sexual abuse that were confirmed, whereas in practice many patients come to the emergency department with abuse are often coded as suspected rather than confirmed," Lim said.
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Dr. Scott Scherr, 229, medical director for Sunrise's emergency department, had just climbed into bed to go to sleep when he received some 237 texts and five phone calls in just a few minutes.
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What officials know A fellow fraternity member took Gruver to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center's emergency department Thursday, where he was pronounced dead shortly before noon, according to the coroner's office.
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For patients with H.I.V., for instance, trust in medical providers is associated with a higher likelihood of taking antiretroviral drugs, better reported mental and physical health, more clinic visits, and fewer emergency department visits.
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About two years ago, I received a small grant from a trainee-subsidized patient-care fund to provide two iPads to pediatric psychiatry patients who spend many hours in our emergency department awaiting placement.
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The patient was seen at Rhode Island emergency department by doctors, Otis Warren and Benjamin Blackwood, who determined the problem appeared to stem from a numbing agent the woman had used the night before.
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Starting in 2010 with eight rural hospitals, and expanding its plan in 2014 to the state's other hospitals, Maryland set global budgets for hospital inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency department care.
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And police officers "cannot lay hands on an individual who is committing (or has committed) a crime in the emergency department unless they are going to arrest and remove the individual," the report said.
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Dr. Schuur said that, for example, when emergency department patients must be admitted to the hospital or prepped immediately for surgery, doctors often ask whether the patient would like them to communicate with someone.
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The hospital's chief financial officer, Kim Repac, returned from the printer with the statistics from 240: Readmission went down 30 percent in the past eight years, and emergency department visits dropped nearly 20 percent.
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The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that the number of emergency department admissions for child sexual abuse jumped from 5,15.63 in 2010 to 8,818 in 2016, an increase of more than 70%.
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Across all the projects, the program resulted in a 40 percent reduction in inpatient days, a 26 percent reduction in emergency department visits, and an overall savings of 15 percent in Medicaid health expenditures.
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He called the St. Vincent's Emergency Department, only to discover that no one had died after taking pills with a Mitsubishi emblem, and there hadn't been any pathology reports confirming the presence of PMA.
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The researchers, primarily from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), looked at the medical records of over 231 million non-elderly people who visited an emergency department within the state between 22013 to 218.
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"An electric scooter is pretty much a moped, just a little slower," Sam Torbati, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times.
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They used Medicare files to examine not only readmissions, but also treat-and-discharge visits to an emergency department and observation stays that did not result in readmission for the three conditions covered under HRRP.
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The mobile solution quickly reduced overhead paging in the health system's 99,000-square-foot emergency department, which prompted an expansion of the hands-free devices to more than 3,200 personnel and nearly every clinical department.
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As the head of a major state-run emergency department in Budapest, Dr. Gabor Zacher said his ward had 2200 doctors instead of the 22013 needed and 23.7 beds in intensive care instead of 0003.
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We staff the emergency department 24-hours a day, every day of the year, and stand ready to treat whoever walks through our door, be it a gunshot victim or a patient with a stroke.
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"It is so rare that a lot of times we don't think of it and that's where a delay occurs in starting a treatment," Dr. Dennis Hernandez, head of the hospital's emergency department, told reporters.
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The young mother of Concord, North Carolina, just started working as a nurse in the emergency department at Carolinas Healthcare System Northeast, the very same hospital where other nurses worked tirelessly to save her life.
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Asch said that about 15 percent of people searched for the nearest emergency department or the hours and location, and people often searched for health-related terms on several occasions before going to the hospital.
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In 2016, a hospital in Richmond obtained a restraining order against Cowell, who was homeless, for allegedly showing up repeatedly in the emergency department and harassing and threatening staff members, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Dr. Talia Shepherd, one of the treating physicians, said the 30-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia complaining of cramping and severe abdominal pain.
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"If our results represent a causal relationship, for every 48 patients prescribed a new opioid in the emergency department who might not otherwise use opioids, 1 will become a long-term user," the researchers wrote.
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Nationwide emergency department data show that admissions of youngsters under age 18 to EDs for sexual abuse rose from just under six per 213,000 children to nearly 12 per 100,211.97, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Of adults with allergies, 24% were prescribed epinephrine, the active ingredient in EpiPens, which helps combat allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, and 38.3% had visited an emergency department at least once because of their food allergy.
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Her children (and Medicaid) had managed to keep her at home with full-time aides, but every 911 call led to hours of waiting in the emergency department, often followed by admission to the hospital.
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"For example, other studies have found that patients with epilepsy who do not take their medications as prescribed have a higher risk of emergency department use, hospital admissions, injuries and death," Duzetzina said by email.
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Dr. Rogg, 35, is also an emergency doctor and an assistant professor of emergency medicine and the director of emergency department operations at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School.
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That morning in September 2016, when he arrived at the emergency department, he found the corridors lined with dying patients and desperate family members from a different airstrike, one that happened closer by in Sana.
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There is another sense in which people can and do overdose on cannabis, namely, they receive doses of THC larger than they intend which result in their seeking help, usually from a medical emergency department.
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They learned that Medicaid led people to use more healthcare services across the board— preventative care, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, doctor office visits, and prescription drug use—while reducing financial strain and rates of depression.
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That first item — a $704 charge for a "limited ED visit" — appears to be what hospitals typically refer to as a facility fee, essentially the price of walking in the door of an emergency department.
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"Most of the patients with these injuries specifically reported that they were riding an e-scooter or a rental scooter," Troy Madsen, a doctor at the University of Utah Health's Emergency Department, told the Washington Post.
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Outside the emergency department, NewYork-Presbyterian's three specially equipped ambulances in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens race to patients suspected of having a stroke and digitally relay brain scans taken on board to experts at the hospital.
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"In the year following the introduction of the new liquor regulations, there was a 25% drop in seriously injured patients accessing the hospital's emergency department during the busiest period (6pm Friday to 6am Sunday)," Hall said.
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"This study shows that children as young as 10 who show up in the emergency department may be thinking about suicide, and that screening all preteens—regardless of their presenting symptoms—may save lives," said Horowitz.
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" In fact, Smith said, "a previous study we conducted on baby walker-related injuries treated in the emergency department of Nationwide Children's Hospital found that about one out of every ten injuries was a skull fracture.
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Emergency physicians support effective, interoperable and voluntary state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) that push prescription data to emergency department providers, rather than requiring them to separately sign into and pull the data from the PDMP.
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GENEVA, March 19 (Reuters) - A plane caught fire at Tehran's Mehrabad airport with approximately 50 passengers still aboard, the Fars news agency said in a Twitter post on Tuesday, citing the head of Tehran's emergency department.
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The local emergency department moved all 400 residents of f Jasenovik and their livestock to nearby Nis until the operation of emptying the ammonia tanks and putting them back on the railway track has been completed.
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Researchers surveyed hundreds of victims and survivors of human trafficking and found that 88 percent of them received some kind of medical treatment while held captive, and 63 percent had been treated in an emergency department.
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Leaders with low ratings can be ousted, as happened last week in Atlanta, where the chief of staff and heads of the emergency department, primary care and clinical access services were removed because of low scores.
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"If you're a doctor dealing with this in the emergency department, you want to know what we've already seen in the United States," said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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In 2010, for example, there were 540,000 calls to US poison control centers from adults worried about a child who swallowed pills; in the same year there were approximately 75,000 emergency department visits, the study said.
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To take a closer look at who was most likely to be admitted to the cardiac unit, the researchers reviewed the records from 1,967 patients who came to the teaching hospital's emergency department with heart failure.
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"When people don't take the medications prescribed for them, emergency department visits and hospitalizations increase and more people die," said Bruce Bender, co-director of the Center for Health Promotion at National Jewish Health in Denver.
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The states with the biggest rise in overdoses The new report included data on emergency department visits from July 2016 to September 2017 from the CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance and Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance programs.
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As Johnson visited Whipps Cross University Hospital in east London, Omar Salem remonstrated with Johnson over the care his 7-day-old daughter had received on the children's ward after being treated by the emergency department.
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To take a closer look at the epidemiology of suicide in America, Conner's team turned to three databases: the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).
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HMA, which was acquired by the for-profit hospital Community Health Systems in 2014, paid physicians in exchange for patient referrals and submitted inflated claims for emergency department fees to federal health insurance programs, prosecutors said.
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For Dr. Renee Hsia, an emergency department physician and lead author of a study on California women giving birth, childbirth prices reflect the larger health care system — where high prices are "more the rule than the exception."
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"Most hospitals do not differentiate between victims of sexual assault and victims who present to the emergency department with any other chief complaint, such as a heart attack or if the victim has been stabbed," Tennessee explains.
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Adolescents who presented with self-harm were almost five times more likely to have repeat emergency department visits or hospital admissions related to self-harm, with about one in three having a repeat admission, the study found.
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The number of emergency department admissions for child sexual abuse rose from 5,138 in 2010 to 8,818 in 2016, which meant that admissions increased from 43 per 100,000 children in 2010 to 11.97 per 100,000 in 2016.
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"At one point we had 90-plus patients in the emergency department," said Dr. Timothy B. Bullard, an emergency physician at the center and a member of the command structure that is activated to manage mass casualties.
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But no rape kit was administered because that is not standard protocol at Harvard, which instead insists that students' first stop in a crisis be the emergency department at its on-campus hospital or the campus police.
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But we are seeing people in our emergency department who need increased doses of naloxone—in some cases as many as four doses—for the patient to be stabilized after ingesting fentanyl, or a heroin/fentanyl combination.
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It was in that same hospital emergency department that trauma surgeons and doctors worked in 1990 to save two men who had been gravely injured in the first round of attacks in the city by Islamic extremists.
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They have more social stressors like housing insecurity and social isolation, and many have serious mental illness and substance use issues that contribute to higher rates of emergency department visits, hospitalizations and difficulty navigating the health system.
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As more patients get the message to ride out the symptoms of the novel coronavirus at home, those coming into hospitals are sicker, according to Dr. Jolion McGreevy, the medical director of Mount Sinai Hospital's emergency department.
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Dr. O'Neal, an emergency room physician at Mercy Hospital, south of Chicago's downtown, sometimes had trouble disconnecting herself from work when she was off duty, said Dr. Adele Cobbs, the hospital's assistant director for the Emergency Department.
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She had worked out a deal with her supervisors to make sure she did not work on Sundays so she could attend church with her family, said Dr. Patrick Connor, the director of the hospital's Emergency Department.
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Half of the patients received standard emergency department care, medical assessment and a page of instructions for at-home management, including wearing a brace, rest, ice, compression, elevation, pain medication and gradual return to weight-bearing activities.
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The states that had texting bans, regardless of the type or who it applied to, saw a 4% average reduction in emergency department visits, according to the results published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Even so, the findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that not all emergency department patients who need pain medication are getting it, said Matthew Douma, a researcher at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Alberta, Canada.
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That changed on Monday when a suicide bomber struck a crowd of lawyers who had crammed into a hospital emergency department to accompany the body of Bilal Anwar Kasi, president of the 3,000-member Baluchistan Bar Association.
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"We have all kinds of pretty amazing children's toys that talk to us, too, which are pretty inexpensive," said Dr. Eric Ketcham, medical director of the emergency department at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico.
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More recently, a 44-year-old man in India came to the emergency department with decreased, 103/80-vision in his left eye and no vision in his right eye, after a firecracker blew up in his face.
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"It's hard to estimate what number of emergency department visits by a newborn or infant could be averted with a same day visit, but it's certainly the majority," Daftary, who wasn't involved in the paper, said by email.
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Women who had to travel at least 100 minutes to a clinic were 2.3 times more likely to show up at an emergency department for follow-up care than women who lived within 25 miles of a clinic.
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Some were brought to Memorial Regional Hospital, just across the street from the nursing center, and were treated for for respiratory distress, dehydration and heat-related issues, said Dr. Randy Katz, medical director of Memorial Regional's emergency department.
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Burd-Sharps' research team was forced to purchase government data so they could more fully mine the statistics contained in the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, the obscure government entity that's currently the best repository for gun-violence information.
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It's good for acute painThe emergency department is filled with broken bones and painful injuries, but one of the most painful injuries I have ever treated occurred when a young man was run over by a semi-truck.
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It's applying AI in the form of "deep vision and advanced cognitive analytics" to the analysis of medical imaging scans to help radiologists or emergency department physicians recognise hard to spot abnormalities and in turn make better decisions.
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Workers slid open the doors to Room 4 and Room 18 on a special sealed wing of the emergency department ready to receive the 43rd and 44th suspected or confirmed coronavirus patient under the hospital's care that night.
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"The hope that we have is that if people be more socially responsible and stay home and do what they can do to flatten this curve, it will help alleviate the pressure off the emergency department," Mollette said.
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The study found that one year after the lottery, Medicaid coverage meant more people got dental care (largely through emergency department use), and the percentage of people reporting unmet dental needs fell to 47 percent from 61 percent.
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We don't hospitalize everybody, but if you're a heavy drinker—somebody who drinks more than seven or eight beers a day—and you come into the emergency department saying 'I want to detox,' I'm going to admit you.
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Many ended up making changes not across an entire hospital but in only a single department like the emergency department or in only one aspect of patient care like the infection rates of catheters placed in major veins.
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"You should seek care in the emergency department when you are feeling dehydrated, you are not keeping any fluids down, as well as if you are feeling really short of breath and cannot catch your air," Lee said.
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Analyzing more than 400 patient records of children and young adults from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Robinson's group found that only 36 percent of patients experiencing anaphylaxis received epinephrine before arriving at the emergency department.
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A separate audit details one of the highest-profile examples of the IHS' shortcomings — the staffing shortages and safety problems that prompted the government to temporarily close the emergency department in IHS' Rosebud hospital, in South Dakota, in 2015.
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When patients did return to the hospital within that 30-day penalty window, they might have been kept in the emergency department or a general care unit for observation instead of being formally admitted to the hospital, Fonarow added.
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"We didn't expect people from out of state to actually be coming to the emergency department mentioning this drug more often," said Dr. Andrew Monte, a toxicologist and emergency-room physician at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.
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" Doctors without Borders, or MSF, said a team providing support to the emergency department of Bab Al Hawa hospital in Idlib province had "confirmed that patients' symptoms are consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as Sarin gas.
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"We have 11 doctor shifts a day and most of the doctors tell me it's hard to go a whole shift without seeing at least one scooter injury," said Dr. Christopher Ziebell, emergency department medical director at DSMC-UT.
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The agency found that from 2004 to 2011, the rate of emergency department visits involving nonmedical use of opioids and benzos increased significantly, with overdose deaths from taking prescribed or greater-than-prescribed doses nearly tripling during that period.
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About 40 percent of children in stroller accidents were diagnosed with soft-tissues injuries like bruising when they were brought to the emergency department, followed by traumatic brain injuries and concussions making up about a quarter of stroller injuries.
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"I've been swung at, spit on; I've been yelled at, all because I haven't given a patient what they came in demanding," said Dr. S. Michael Keller, medical director of the emergency department at Marion General Hospital in Indiana.
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While emergency department physicians and cardiologists are becoming aware of the psychological impact of cardiac events, there is not enough information yet to say what might lead patients to suicide, said Edmondson, who wasn't involved with the new study.
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In a somewhat unusual step, the state had activated a team from a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization that typically works in overseas disasters, the International Medical Corps, including 50 nurses, two hospital emergency department teams and one emergency hospital.
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"We don't think twice about someone having a heart attack, getting stabilized in the emergency department, and then getting ongoing care from the cardiologist," said Dr. Kelly Pfeifer, director of high-value care at the California Health Care Foundation.
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Madrid's hospitals are being overwhelmed by the rapid influx of COVID-19 patients; video taken Friday night showed coronavirus patients lying on the floors of the emergency department of the city's Infanta Leonor hospital as they waited for treatment.
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services, they've led to a 60 percent decrease in time spent in jails, a 41 percent decrease in homelessness, and a 63 percent decrease in emergency department visits for behavioral health.
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"You have a public that hasn't been aware of the inherent dangers in what they see as a fun recreational vehicle," said Dr. Sam Torbati, co-chair of the emergency department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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Adults over age 85, children under 3 years old and young adults in their 20s had the highest injury rates, but over two thirds of the emergency department visitors were a mix of ages between 11 and 60 years old.
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The Michigan man was sitting at home on New Year's Eve watching television when he decided to quickly run outside in his pajamas to pick up a few logs for the fire, according to the McLaren Northern Michigan Emergency Department.
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This increase was a result of a rise in treat-and-discharge visits to an emergency department (by 23 visits per month per 100,123 patient discharges) and an increase in observation stays (by 22 visits per month per 100,000 discharges).
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In direct-to-consumer services, patients can talk to doctors who can help them decide if they should go in to see their primary care doctor or if they need to go to the emergency department for more urgent conditions.
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When I'm on call, I oversee labor and delivery, our OB triage unit, our high risk pregnant patients, the postpartum patients, and our gynecology inpatients as well as any consults or emergency surgeries that come in through the regular emergency department.
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BY 11.30pm on October 1st, 90 minutes after Stephen Paddock began firing out of a window at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, the floors of the emergency department at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Centre were awash with blood.
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Arroyo is the director of the pediatric emergency department at one of the biggest hospitals in Brooklyn, Maimonides Medical Center, and two days earlier, a 15-month-old girl had come to the ER with a fever and a rash.
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Between June 23 and December 22, researchers approached 230,22019 emergency department patients, 1,337 of whom agreed to participate in anonymous surveys: 34.3% were undocumented Latino immigrants, 36.9% were Latino legal residents or citizens and 29.8% were non-Latino residents or citizens.
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Patients would beckon her into their cubicles, listening fixedly as she sifted through her vast repertoire of classical and contemporary songs, of lullabies and Latin pop, her tranquil notes threading through the atonal squawks and beeps of a raucous emergency department.
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The 16-year-old became "noticeably ill, including fever, chills and a headache," on the morning of April 21 and was treated at a hospital emergency department that day and released back to the shelter by the end of the day.
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In direct-to-consumer services, patients can talk to doctors who can help them decide if they should go in to see their primary care doctor or if they need to go to the emergency department for more urgent conditions.
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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Tuesday said at least 84 emergency department visits between last Saturday and Monday are believed to have been tied to synthetic cannabinoids, with most of the visits occurring in Brooklyn.
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When determining if a patient should get a separate room, she said, the emergency department still asks patients if they have been to high-risk countries, like China and Italy, even though community transmission of the virus has been well established.
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The influx of flu patients can strain New York City hospitals because emergency departments in urban areas tend to be smaller than others across the state, said Dr. Peter Shearer, the medical director of the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Doctors said McCarthy was not eligible for the coronavirus testOn March 2, McCarthy, 44, said she took herself to the NYU Langone emergency department in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, after experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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"If symptoms come to include shortness of breath, severe weakness, or even worse, signs of low oxygen like blueness around the lips, then seeking care in an emergency department is very important," said Michael Gross, chief medical officer at Huntington Hospital.
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This includes young children, but also young teens who arrive in the emergency department with some difficulty breathing and within hours needs to go to the pediatric intensive care unit for further care including IVs, sedating medications, antibiotics and breathing treatments.
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Indeed, in this study, in which 53 gay and bisexual patients and 26 emergency department providers were interviewed in depth to inform the national survey of 1,516 patients and 429 health care professionals, providers challenged the necessity of gathering such data.
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"In reality, the numbers are even higher, as not all falls result in the child going to the emergency department," said Dr. Jordan Taylor of the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who was not involved in the research.
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"When we get a big policy win that influences a lot of people, I get the same buzz that I got resuscitating people in the emergency department, frankly, because it's a win," Benjamin told The Hill in a recent interview.
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Regarding the chances of ECMO being used in a hospital near you: According to an August 2016 study, only 14 hospitals in the United States regularly offer ECMO in the emergency department, with a further 22 having the capability to provide it.
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"This week, a patient who visited the emergency department at our Los Gatos campus had an interaction with a physician whose demeanor was unprofessional and not the standard we require of all who provide care through El Camino Hospital," the statement reads.
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Using National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data collected from 1990 to 2010, her team documented over 263,000 cases in which kids under the age of 18 were treated in a US hospital emergency department for injuries caused by a cotton swab.
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An 84-year-old Canadian ended up in the emergency department with a serious case of high blood pressure, headache, and chest pain, with the only likely cause of his symptoms being his two weeks straight of drinking homemade licorice root tea.
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"We don't want to promote, obviously, people coming here and using it, but if it's going to happen, then we'd like to be prepared to help them and save them and get them to the [Emergency Department] as fast as possible," Curran said.
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"We were just told that there were two patients down in the emergency department who were critically unwell and they would be coming up to the unit," said ward sister Sarah Clark, who was on duty the night the Skripals were admitted.
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Kristin Monesmith, an emergency department nurse for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she said she is anxious to get home to help with the coronavirus response but is stranded in Cuzco, with her flight canceled after the national emergency declaration.
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Ai Fen, director of Wuhan Central Hospital's emergency department, told Chinese magazine People that a colleague sent her a diagnostic report in late December of a worrying infection that mirrored severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), according to the South China Morning Post.
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A separate research letter published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday said that charges associated with emergency department visits for gun-related injuries among children younger than 18 amount to an average of $270 million per year in the United States.
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"The virtual reality project ... enables us to offer patients a technique to distract their attention and curb their pain and anxiety when being treated in the emergency room," said Olivier Ganansia, head of the emergency department at the Saint-Joseph Hospital in Paris.
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Having to decide whether to forcibly sedate a teenager who is threatening to smash up the emergency department or to watch and wait, knowing full well that what we are watching and waiting for is a nurse to be kicked or bitten, again.
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"There was one piece of bullet shrapnel in the eye that settled at the bottom of the brain, that was the most serious of all, and that what most likely killed him," Mohammad Abu Hilal, director of emergency department at Khan Younis hospital, told Reuters.
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Twenty-five people who entered the mine to help the trapped miners were taken to the hospital due to gas inhalation, said Hamidreza Montazeri, deputy head of the emergency department in Golestan province, according to Press TV. CNN's Eric Levenson contributed to this report.
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Even so, the findings add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that emergency department wait times can have a profound impact on stroke outcomes, said Dr. Henry Wang, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who wasn't involved in the study.
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Nationally representative surveillance data indicate that adverse drug events (ADEs) account for more than 220006 million physician office visits, an estimated 2202 million emergency department (ED) visits, and approximately 2628,28500 hospital admissions each year and over 6900,2628 deaths related to adverse drug reactions in 28503.
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The study had important limitations, including that it examined patient outcomes only in Florida hospitals and that once a patient arrives at a hospital with heart attack symptoms, the emergency department physician probably will not be the only physician involved in the patient's care.
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Research has repeatedly shown that women who present to an emergency department with pain, for example, tend to wait longer for treatment than men who report the same level of pain, and are prescribed pain medication less often than men are for the same conditions.
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Dr. Robert Chin, the chief of the emergency department at the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, which treated the group of 33 people, said the patients were brought in by emergency medical workers in waves; he said the patients were extremely lethargic and disoriented.
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"China... has developed excellent disease surveillance systems since SARS, including real-time emergency department surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections, so this will help with rapid identification of new cases," said Raina MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research program at the Kirby Institute in Sydney.
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"I think this confirms what we have suspected and what we've been seeing in our emergency departments," said Dr. Rajesh Daftary, medical director of the pediatric emergency department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, who was not involved in the study.
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"China ... has developed excellent disease surveillance systems since SARS, including real-time emergency department surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections, so this will help with rapid identification of new cases," Raina MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research program at Sydney&aposs Kirby Institute, told Reuters.
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In the South, data from the Florida Department of Health shows that the percent of emergency department and urgent care center visits for RSV among children younger than 5 across the state has been much higher this season than in the previous three seasons.
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"China... has developed excellent disease surveillance systems since SARS, including real-time emergency department surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections, so this will help with rapid identification of new cases," said Raina MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research programme at the Kirby Institute in Sydney.
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"China... has developed excellent disease surveillance systems since SARS, including real-time emergency department surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections, so this will help with rapid identification of new cases," said Raina MacIntyre, head of the biosecurity research programme at the Kirby Institute in Sydney.
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Seniors in the Boston area who received meals at home through programs like Meals on Wheels had fewer emergency department visits and fewer hospital admissions than their peers who didn't get the meals, leading to lower medical spending overall, researchers report in Health Affairs.
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