Nuacht

BMJ16 uair an chloig
Emergency department discharge instructions: a wide variation in practice across Australasia
Correspondence to: Dr McD Taylor, Emergency Department, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3050 (e-mail: taylordm{at}hotmail.com) Objectives—All patients discharged from the ...
BMJ2 lá
Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality
Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...
BMJ4 lá
Use of emergency observation and assessment wards: a systematic literature review
Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Cooke, Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary ...
BMJLíon na míonna: 2
The nasopharyngeal airway: dispelling myths and establishing the facts
2 Senior house officer in Intensive Care Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK 3 Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA ...
BMJ6 lá
Empathy can be taught and learned with evidence-based education
Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...
BMJLíon na míonna: 2
Oxygen therapy and inpatient mortality in COPD exacerbation
Background In hospitalised patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, European and British guidelines endorse oxygen target saturations of ...
BMJ10 lá
Observational research methods. Research design II: cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies
Cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies are collectively referred to as observational studies. Often these studies are the only practicable method of studying various problems, for example, ...
BMJLíon na míonna: 1
Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Background Supporting people to quit smoking is one of the most powerful interventions to improve health. The Emergency Department (ED) represents a potentially valuable opportunity to deliver a ...
BMJ6y
Distributions of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across a healthcare system following a large-scale roll-out
Background Early warning scores (EWS) were developed in acute hospital settings to improve recognition and response to patient deterioration. In 2012, the UK Royal College of Physicians developed the ...
BMJ2y
Risk factors that predict mortality in patients with blunt chest wall trauma: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Over the last 10 years, research has highlighted emerging potential risk factors for poor outcomes following blunt chest wall trauma. The aim was to update a previous systematic review and ...
BMJLíon na míonna: 1
Safe staffing for nursing in emergency departments: evidence review
1 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (Wessex), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Objective Getting staffing levels wrong ...
BMJLíon na míonna: 2
Emergency department triage revisited
Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...