Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Consultation difficulty occurs in hospitals located in many countries, and it is understood that strategies to improve the emergency department (ED) consultation process are needed. The authors constructed a computerized consultation management system in the ED of a tertiary care teaching hospital to improve the consultation process and evaluate the influence of the consultation management system on ED length of stay (LOS) and the throughput process. ⋯ This study found decreased ED LOS by implementation of a computerized consultation management system in a tertiary care teaching hospital. The automated consultation and monitoring process formalized communication between physicians providing ED patient care in the academic ED with high consultation and admission rates.
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The following is the keynote address to the First Emergency Medicine Conference in Vietnam, held in the historic city of Hue, March 22-26, 2010. This presentation reviewed the global history of emergency medicine (EM) and presented the need for the establishment of EM residency programs in Vietnam in a culturally sensitive manner. Immediately following this presentation, the Deputy Minister of Health for Vietnam announced recognition of EM as a specialty in Vietnam, and the establishment of EM residency programs, with the first starting October 1, 2010, in association with the Hue College of Medicine.