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Filter by:Saint Luke Home (SLH) is a home for low-income seniors who are ≥ 55 years and in need of basic living help in Tucson, Arizona. Reports shows that emergency calls are made from SLH (64 residents) around 60 times each year with emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions that follow. In 2014, a total of 70 calls were made, and in 2015, 49 calls. The Director, who is a nurse by training, and staff report that many of these calls are related to medications and may be avoidable. Therefore, we believe we can make a difference and decrease emergency calls, ED visits and hospitalizations that can be avoided with a program to teach the elders and staff at SLH. The program is called Preventing Avoidable Admissions Among Assisted Living Elders (PA4LE) and will consist of a 2-hour session every two weeks including home or clinic visits (elder preference), educational sessions, and staff training.
Kidney failure is a major public health problem. REIN registry shows that 33% of patients treated in renal replacement therapy for ESRD start dialysis in emergency. Unscheduled care is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, with less access to off dialysis center and kidney transplant. In addition, the emergency management has an impact on the organization of health structures. The High Authority of Health in 2012 issued a "care pathway Guide" aimed "to report in this process of the multidisciplinary nature of the management and coordination of principles and procedures for the Chronic Renal failure and cooperation between professionals involved. " A function of coordinator of the Chronic Renal Disease was set up in service since May 2013. Investigators propose to carry out a study to value its impact on the start of the dialysis in emergency and hypothesize that this feature innovative in France improves the patient pathway and thus reduce support emergency frequency of ESRD. The objective of this study is to show the improvement of the quality of care for terminally chronic renal failure patients. This is to evaluate an experiment aimed to facilitate a complex care path. If this experiment is successful, it could form part of "advanced practice".
The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of an existing tele-emergency care network on quality of care, appropriateness of care utilization, patient safety (medication errors), and cost effectiveness compared to telephone consultations from a healthcare system prospective.
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a major public health issue with a low survival rate. The most common cause of SCD is acute coronary artery occlusion. Several registry based studies suggest that coronary angiography (CA) performed at admission followed if necessary by coronary angioplasty improves in-hospital and long term survival. Recent guidelines recommend performing an immediate CA in all survivors of SCD with no obvious non cardiac cause of arrest. However there is a lack of randomized data on this topic. Several retrospective studies have shown that if the post-resuscitation electrocardiogram (ECG) shows ST segment elevation, the probability of finding an acute coronary artery lesion during the CA is high (70-80%). In contrast, if no ST segment elevation is present the probability is low (15-20%). Performing an immediate CA in all survivors of SCD can be challenging. It requires admitting these patients to centers with an intensive care unit and facilities allowing 24/24 7/7 CA. It may increase the delay of performing other therapeutic modalities such as CT brain or thorax scan to determine the cause of SCD. Performing the CA 48 to 96 hours after admission would facilitate the management of these difficult patients. However if the cause of the arrest is a coronary artery occlusion and there is a delay in reperfusion, the rate of post-arrest shock and the mortality may increase. Therefore a randomized study comparing immediate versus delayed (between 48 to 96 hours) CA in survivors of SCD with no obvious non-cardiac cause of arrest is warranted.
The objective of this randomized double-blind study was to evaluate the effect of betamethasone in the control of postoperative pain in patients undergoing endodontic treatment.
This study will evaluate the course of care of newborns, to understand why some newborns have improper care pathways, particularly as regards the first medical consultation at the exit of motherhood. It is also to organize a better quality care network to hospital discharge to avoid unnecessary use of pediatric emergencies, which represents a real public health problem.
Obese women are significantly more likely than their normal BMI counterparts to experience failure of orally-dosed emergency contraceptives. The PI's preliminary data provides evidence for testing a dose escalation strategy in an effort to provide improved efficacy from orally-dosed emergency contraceptives in obese women. The overall project will be focused on both levonorgestrel (LNG) - and ulipristal acetate-containing emergency contraception but this protocol registration is for the LNG aspect of the study procedures.
The purpose of the proposed research is to examine whether incorporating point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) early in diagnostic work-up of cardiopulmonary complaints will affect diagnosis, time to condition-specific intervention, and ultimately patient outcomes compared to usual care.
This qualitative study aimed to describe and understand the factors leading to the admission in emergency unit of patients coming from their home, in an end of life situation. This study was conducted in the university hospital of Besançon, France. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with general practitioners and family members in order to understand the factors leading, from their points of view, to the admission in emergency unit whereas this hospitalization wasn't necessary.
Obese women are significantly more likely than their normal BMI counterparts to experience failure of orally-dosed emergency contraceptives. Our preliminary data provides evidence for testing a dose escalation strategy in an effort to provide improved efficacy from orally-dosed emergency contraceptives in obese women. More data is needed regarding emergency contraception containing ulipristal acetate. The overall project will be focused on both levonorgestrel (LNG) - and ulipristal acetate (UPA)-containing emergency contraception but this protocol registration is for the UPA aspect of the study procedures.