Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2021
Observational StudyOutcomes of laceration suture repair in the emergency department.
To assess patient satisfaction with laceration management, post-ED care, cosmesis and complication rates. ⋯ Most patients are very satisfied with their laceration management. However, there is scope for improvement, especially for follow-up and wound care advice. Complications are infrequent and not associated with overall satisfaction.
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2021
Lost bed capacity in emergency departments: A descriptive analysis and data visualisation exploration.
To map utilisation of bed resources within an ED over time, in order to determine the proportions of patient stay spent receiving emergency care versus non-emergent care. To produce visualisations that effectively convey this bed utilisation. ⋯ A considerable proportion of ED length of stay is because of patients remaining in an ED bed after their emergency care is concluded. Absolute time is much greater for admitted patients than for discharged patients, and therefore efforts to reduce LBC are likely to reduce overall ED length of stay. LBC heatmaps may provide an intuitively useful, potentially automated tool to understand these problems.
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2021
An impact of national lockdown towards emergency department visits and admission rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand: A hospital-based study.
To evaluate the impact of the national lockdown because of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic towards the ED visits and admission rates in Thailand. ⋯ The national lockdown in Thailand was associated with a significant reduction in average daily ED visits across traumatic and non-traumatic patients. Communication from healthcare professionals and public health officers is necessary to reinforce the importance of timely ED visits for acute health conditions.
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2021
Factors affecting the non-urgent consultations in the emergency department of a tertiary hospital in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study.
The non-standard emergency medicine services and the limited utilisation of primary care providers in the Philippines may contribute towards the ED being a preferred area for patients with non-urgent conditions. Our study aims to determine the factors associated with non-urgent consultations in the ED of a tertiary hospital in the Philippines. ⋯ Non-urgent consultations in ED are attributed to multiple factors encompassing socio-demographic, socio-economic and psychosocial dimensions. These factors must be considered in improving the current healthcare management system for the appropriate utilisation of ED in the Philippines.