The American journal of emergency medicine
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Emergency physicians are responsible for admitting children with asthma who do not respond to initial therapy. We examined the hypothesis that an initial room air pulse oximetry ≤90% elevates the risk of a complicated hospital course in children who require admission with acute asthma.
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Emergency department (ED) utilization has increased for the last several decades. Despite a focus on adult frequent ED users, little research has examined pediatric frequent ED users. The purpose of this study was to assess pediatric ED utilization in California and to describe those identified as frequent ED users. ⋯ The majority of pediatric frequent users do not seek care in pediatric EDs. Age, prior admission, and Medicare/Medicaid appear to have the largest associations with pediatric patient frequent ED utilization.
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Letter Multicenter Study Observational Study
Current use and training needs of point-of-care ultrasound in emergency departments: A national survey of VA hospitals.
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Computed tomography (CT) is frequently used to identify intra-abdominal injuries in children with blunt abdominal trauma (BAT). The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) proposed a prediction rule to identify children with BAT who are at very low risk for clinically-important intra-abdominal injuries (CIIAI) in whom CT can be avoided. ⋯ One out of 133 patients with CIIAI met very low risk criteria based on the PECARN prediction rule. This study supports the PECARN clinical prediction rule in decreasing CT use in pediatric patients at very low risk for CIIAI.
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Observational Study
Emergency department patient payer status after implementation of the Affordable Care Act: A nationwide analysis using NHAMCS data.
To evaluate changes in insurance status among emergency department (ED) patients presenting in the two years immediately before and after full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ⋯ In the first two years following full implementation of the ACA, there was a significant increase in the proportion of working-age adult ED patients who had at least one form of health insurance. The increase appeared primarily associated with expansion of Medicaid.