Objective: Describe the implementation of the Welcoming with Risk Classification in the Hospital Sao Paulo's Emergency Department, as well as present its theoretical reference. The Protocol determines the waiting time for ...

Purpose: To determine the frequency of ocular conditions among patients presenting to an emergency department at a tertiary hospital in Spain. Methods: A retrospective, longitudinal analysis of all patients who presented ...

One of the biggest challenges for the management of the emergency department (ED) is to expedite the management of patients since their arrival for those with low priority pathologies selected by the classification systems, ...

Short time readmission prediction in Emergency Depart-ments (ED) is a valuable tool to improve both the ED managementand the healthcare quality. It helps identifying patients requiring fur-ther post-discharge attention ...

© 2019 The prediction of readmissions in the healthcare system, i.e. patients that are discharged and come back in a short interval of time, has taken great importance as readmissions have been taken as a measure of the ...

The National Early Warning Score (NEWS)-2 is an early warning scale that is used in emergency departments to identify patients at risk of clinical deterioration and to help establish rapid and timely management. The objective ...

Introduction: Syncope is a common complaint in the emergency department, defining the proper studies and destination of these patients is still a matter of debate. There have been various tools designed to help establish ...