Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2013
Association between emergency department length of stay and outcome of patients admitted either to a ward, intensive care or high dependency unit.
To evaluate the association of ED length of stay (EDLOS) and outcome of patients admitted to a ward, intensive care (ICU) or stepdown (high dependency) unit (SDU). ⋯ EDLOS was greater for ED to ward patients, and of the ED to ward patients who died. At an EDLOS of 4 h there were fewer ICU, in comparison with ward, patients remaining in the ED. Future studies that report on EDLOS should differentiate for patients admitted from the ED to the ward, ICU or SDU.
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2013
ReviewA primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department: Part V: How to describe data and basic medical statistics.
In this series we address key topics for clinicians who conduct research as part of their work in the ED. In this section we will address important statistical concepts for clinical researchers and readers of clinical research publications. We use practical clinical examples of how to describe clinical data for presentation and publication, and explain key statistical concepts and tests clinical researchers will likely use for the majority of ED datasets.