Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2014
Piloting an online incident reporting system in Australasian emergency medicine.
Medical-specific incident reporting systems are critical to understanding error in healthcare but underreporting by doctors reduces their value. ⋯ Collecting patient safety information by frontline doctors is essential to actively engage the profession in patent safety. Although the EMER system allowed easy online reporting of high quality incident data by doctors, site recruitment and system uptake proved difficult. System use by ED doctors requires dedicated and conscious effort from the profession.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2014
Use of poisons information resources and satisfaction with electronic products by Victorian emergency department staff.
ED staff use a range of poisons information resources of varying type and quality. The present study aims to identify those resources utilised in the state of Victoria, Australia, and assess opinion of the most used electronic products. ⋯ The order of poisons information sources most utilised was: consultation with a colleague, in-house protocols and electronic resources. There was a significant difference in satisfaction with electronic poisons information resources and a movement away from existing sources when choice was provided. Interest in increased use of mobile solutions was identified.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2014
Ill communication: What's wrong with the medical literature and how to fix it.
Current conventions for the writing of medical scientific papers impede clear communication of scientific research results. This article discusses the reasons for this and how to ameliorate them.