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View article: Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers
Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers Open
Law enforcement officers frequently encounter people with health conditions. We sought to estimate the rates, diagnoses, and characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits among patients transported directly by law enforcement. We ana…
View article: Jail Health Care in the Southeastern United States From Entry to Release
Jail Health Care in the Southeastern United States From Entry to Release Open
Policy Points As a consequence of mass incarceration and related social inequities in the United States, jails annually incarcerate millions of people who have profound and expensive health care needs. Resources allocated for jail health c…
View article: Detection of sepsis during emergency department triage using machine learning
Detection of sepsis during emergency department triage using machine learning Open
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition with organ dysfunction and is a leading cause of death and critical illness worldwide. Even a few hours of delay in the treatment of sepsis results in increased mortality. Early detection of sepsis du…
View article: Why Do Patients With Cancer Visit Emergency Departments? Results of a 2008 Population Study in North Carolina
Why Do Patients With Cancer Visit Emergency Departments? Results of a 2008 Population Study in North Carolina Open
Purpose Emergency departments (EDs) in the United States are used by patients with cancer for disease or treatment-related problems and unrelated issues. The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETEC…
View article: Using nurses’ natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patients’ chief complaints in the emergency department
Using nurses’ natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patients’ chief complaints in the emergency department Open
Information about the chief complaint (CC), also known as the patient's reason for seeking emergency care, is critical for patient prioritization for treatment and determination of patient flow through the emergency department (ED). Triage…
View article: Evaluation of preprocessing techniques for chief complaint classification
Evaluation of preprocessing techniques for chief complaint classification Open
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether preprocessing chief complaints before automatically classifying them into syndromic categories improves classification performance. METHODS: We preprocessed chief complaints using two preprocessors (CCP and …
View article: Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers
Emergency department visits among patients transported by law enforcement officers Open
Law enforcement officers frequently encounter people with health conditions. We sought to estimate the rates, diagnoses, and characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits among patients transported directly by law enforcement. We ana…
View article: Defining Emergency Department Asthma Visits for Public Health Surveillance, North Carolina, 2008–2009
Defining Emergency Department Asthma Visits for Public Health Surveillance, North Carolina, 2008–2009 Open
IntroductionWhen using emergency department (ED) data sets for public health surveillance, a standard approach is needed to define visits attributable to asthma. Asthma can be the first (primary) or a subsequent (2nd through 11th) diagnosi…
View article: Population-based burden of COPD-related visits in the ED: Return ED visits, hospital admissions, and comorbidity risks
Population-based burden of COPD-related visits in the ED: Return ED visits, hospital admissions, and comorbidity risks Open
Little is known about the population-based burden of ED care for COPD.
View article: Why Do Cancer Patients Die in the Emergency Department?: An Analysis of 283 Deaths in NC EDs
Why Do Cancer Patients Die in the Emergency Department?: An Analysis of 283 Deaths in NC EDs Open
Emergency department (ED) visits are made by cancer patients for symptom management, treatment effects, oncologic emergencies, or end of life care. While most patients prefer to die at home, many die in health care institutions. The purpos…
View article: Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study Open
Introduction: Increasing advance care planning (ACP) among older adults is a national priority. Documentation of ACP in the electronic health record (EHR) is particularly important during emergency care.
View article: The Impact of Visualization Dashboards on Quality of Care and Clinician Satisfaction: Integrative Literature Review
The Impact of Visualization Dashboards on Quality of Care and Clinician Satisfaction: Integrative Literature Review Open
Researchers can build on the findings, strengths, and limitations of the work identified in this literature review to bolster development, testing, and implementation of novel visualization dashboard solutions. Due to the relatively few st…
View article: Development of the Emergency Department Senior Abuse Identification (ED Senior AID) tool
Development of the Emergency Department Senior Abuse Identification (ED Senior AID) tool Open
Emergency departments (EDs) are an important health care setting for the identification of elder abuse (EA). Our objective was to develop an ED-based tool to identify EA. The initial tool included a brief cognitive assessment, questions to…
View article: The Impact of Visualization Dashboards on Quality of Care and Clinician Satisfaction: Integrative Literature Review (Preprint)
The Impact of Visualization Dashboards on Quality of Care and Clinician Satisfaction: Integrative Literature Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the United States admit more than 5.7 million people each year. The ICU level of care helps people with life-threatening illness or injuries and involves close, constant attention by a team of spe…
View article: Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study Open
In a sample of older ED patients likely to benefit from ACP, few patients had documented end-of-life care preferences in the EHR.