Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2021
Adequacy of cool running water first aid by healthcare professionals in the treatment of paediatric burns: A cross-sectional study of 4537 children.
To determine the adequacy of cool running water first aid provided by healthcare professionals in the early management of children with thermal burn injuries. ⋯ Deficiencies remain in the cooling of paediatric burns patients at all levels of initial management. There is a need in the healthcare community for improved education regarding the parameters and clinical benefits of cool running water first aid.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2021
ReviewReview article: Emergency department crowding measures associations with quality of care: A systematic review.
ED crowding has been reported to reduce the quality of care. There are many proposed crowding metrics, but the metric most strongly associated with care quality remains unknown. The present study aims to determine the crowding metric with the strongest links with processes and outcomes of care linked to the Institute of Medicine quality domains. ⋯ ED length of stay, boarding time and total occupancy had the strongest association with safety and effectiveness of care. ED length of stay was also associated with equity. The certainty of evidence for associations between crowding measures varied across domains of quality, from very low to moderate certainty.