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Can the examination time in CT and conventional x-ray be reduced in an emergency department with integrated radiology unit? A retrospective study
Quick radiological diagnosis is often needed in order to allow the clinicians to make a diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to measure examination time for radiology procedures before and after
Respiratory rates observed over 15 seconds compared with rates measured using the RRate app. Practice-based evidence from an observational study of acutely ill adult medical patients during their hospital admission
Background: counting respiratory rate over 60 seconds can be impractical in a busy clinical setting. Methods: 870 respiratory rates of 272 acutely ill medical patients estimated from observations over
Clinical Reliability of point-of-care tests to support community based acute ambulatory care
Objective: To ensure clinicians can rely on point-of-care testing results, we assessed agreement between point-of-care tests for creatinine, urea, sodium, potassium, calcium, Hb, INR, CRP and subsequent
Which patients should be monitored, how should they be monitored, and why should they be monitored?
Intensively monitoring severely ill patients is like placing a smoke alarm in a burning building: it makes no sense. Smoke alarms only makes sense if they are placed in buildings before a fire starts,
Identifying avoidable switchboard delays in England’s NHS hospitals: phase one of the national SWITCH project
Background: Inter-hospital communication frequently requires mediation via a switchboard. Identifying and eliminating switchboard inefficiencies may improve patient care. Methods: All 175 acute hospital
Using trends in electronic recordings of vital signs to identify patients stable for transfer from acute hospitals
Patients who are stable might not be required to remain in hospital. We aimed to create objective criteria to indicate stability based on vital signs. An index based on NEWS (NBI) was compared to a
Described Practices for Assessing Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Hospital Care: A Qualitative Study
Fluid resuscitation is a widely-used treatment in acute and emergency medicine, however, the process used to perform a fluid assessment has never been studied. This qualitative study explored how acute
Higher In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Nonspecific Complaints Presenting to the Emergency Department
Background: Nonspecific complaints (NSC) at the Emergency Department (ED) are not well researched yet. Objective: To investigate the number of patients who could be classified as having NSC early after