Articles: hospital-emergency-service.
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Violence in the emergency department (ED) setting is well documented in medical literature. Weapons can be used to cause significant injury or mortality, although there is a paucity of literature on weapons and weapons screening in the ED. ⋯ Implementation of weapons screening significantly increased the number of weapons identified and confiscated prior to entry in the ED by patients and visitors.
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2023
Geographic variation in emergency department presentations among youth (10-24 years), New South Wales 2019: An epidemiological study.
To characterise ED presentations among youth in New South Wales (NSW) by geographic remoteness for 2019 and determine if intra-regional (inland vs coastal) variations exist. ⋯ Patterns of ED utilisation between major city, regional and remote youth were distinctly different, but not so between coastal and inland regional youth. Further research could better understand ED utilisation among youth and the drivers of higher presentation rates in regional and remote areas.