Thunderstorm Asthma Strikes Shanxi: How a September Storm Turned Pollen Into a Respiratory Emergency
A September 2025 thunderstorm in Shanxi, China, sent 39 patients to one emergency department within hours, revealing how Artemisia pollen ...
Tag: Emergency Department
Doctors and Patients Reach Rare Consensus on Screening Psychiatric Emergency Patients
An international Delphi study has produced the DIME tool, a consensus-based medical screening instrument for emergency department patients with psychiatric ...
AI Flags Hidden Self-Harm History in Europe’s Emergency Rooms
An interpretable machine learning model trained on European injury surveillance data can identify emergency department patients whose records show documented ...
Rapid brief therapy after self-harm crises transforms emergency care for teens
A qualitative study of NHS crisis clinicians delivering the SASH brief psychological intervention after adolescent self-harm attendances reveals how rapid, ...
Outpatient Dermatology Care Linked to Fewer Hospital Readmissions in Hidradenitis Suppurativa
A decade-long Henry Ford Health study found that 72 percent of emergency department visits for hidradenitis suppurativa led to hospital ...
Saudi Children’s Injury Research Reveals a Fragmented Trauma Evidence Base
A systematic review of 32 Saudi clinical reports finds pediatric trauma evidence too fragmented for meta-analysis, with only one national ...
Stroke Survivors in the US Face Steep Gaps in Care, Mobility and Mental Health
A pooled analysis of US National Health Interview Survey data from 2019 to 2023 finds stroke survivors face sharply elevated ...
Anxiety and Emergency Department Visits in Cancer Patients Show a Complicated Link
A new systematic review finds that when anxiety is linked to emergency department use in adults with cancer, the association ...
Every Day of Waiting Counts: Decade-Long Study Reveals Why Children Miss Specialist Appointments
A 10-year audit of over 156,000 pediatric referrals in Singapore found that each additional 30 days of waiting raised the ...
How Do You Measure a Crowded Emergency Room? A New Review Maps the Tools
A new scoping review of 87 studies identifies twelve multidimensional tools for measuring emergency department overcrowding and finds that only ...
Virtual Urgent Care Clinic Keeps Most Patients Away from the Emergency Department
A consultant-led urgent virtual care centre at Cork University Hospital managed 73.1 percent of 2,584 referred patients without emergency department ...
Ethical Climate, Not Pay or Age, Predicts Whether Nurses Plan to Quit
A cross-sectional study of 143 Saudi nurses in intensive care, oncology, and emergency units finds that hospital ethical climate is ...
Text Messages After the ER Help Patients Quit Risky Habits, Trial Finds
A Hong Kong randomized controlled trial found that a brief phone-based intervention plus six months of WhatsApp or WeChat messages ...
Patients and Staff Co-Design Four Tools to Make Emergency Departments Fairer for Ethnic Minorities
A five-workshop Experience-Based Co-Design study in Australia produced four interventions, including a bilingual pain scale and waiting room display, to ...
How Much Navigator Contact Does It Take? New Analysis Probes Dose and Equity in Addiction Care
A new letter in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that substance use navigator programs need dose-response analysis and ...
Women Veterans Split Emergency Care Between VA Hospitals and Community ERs, National Study Finds
A national study of 1.6 million Veterans shows women Veterans receive about 60 percent of their emergency care in VA ...
Four Simple Blood Markers Could Flag Deadly Bacteremia in Cancer Patients Within Hours
Researchers in Seoul have developed a four-variable prediction model combining procalcitonin, pulse rate, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, and albumin that accurately identifies ...
Nightmare Therapy Moves Into Primary Care and Emergency Rooms to Reach Trauma Survivors
Researchers are bringing standardized cognitive behavioral therapy for nightmares into primary care and emergency departments to reach trauma survivors who ...
EHR Alerts Steer Faster, Evidence-Based Care for Critically Ill Cardiac Patients
Three University of Michigan studies show that well-designed electronic health record alerts can prompt faster, guideline-based treatment decisions for critically ...
Ambulance Notes May Outperform Hospital Screening Tests in Spotting Delirium Early
A Dutch cohort study of 655 older emergency department patients found that documented prehospital indicators from GP and ambulance notes ...
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