Annals of emergency medicine
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We examined the percentage of outpatient clinic appointments kept after referral from the emergency department. Several factors (age, sex, and specialty) were examined, to determine their effect on patient compliance. ⋯ The compliance rate at VGH is higher than any found in studies of similar American hospitals. We determined two main explanations for this phenomenon: (1) the ED clerk makes the outpatient clinic appointment before the patient leaves the ED and gives the patient a computer printout of the date and time of the appointment and a map with the location of the appointment circled, and (2) patients do not have to pay for outpatient clinic visits.
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To determine whether posttraumatic hypothermia is associated with hemorrhage or with resuscitation. ⋯ Hemorrhage-associated hypothermia occurs during hypotensive shock, not during fluid resuscitation.