Emergency Service, Hospital - Utilization
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Monday, November 23, 2009

African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room.

29 Sep 2009 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are designed to provide comprehensive health care, including primary care to their enrollees. However, HMOs deliver care through a wide variety of physician networks, settings and methods throughout the nation ... Read more...

Pediatric adverse drug events in the outpatient setting: an 11-year national analysis.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a common complication of medical care, but few pediatric data are available describing the frequency or epidemiology of these events. We estimated the national incidence of pediatric ADEs requiring medical ... Read more...

Emergency Department utilisation: a natural experiment.

9 Sep 2009 AIM: In February 2005 a new Emergency Department (ED) was opened at Waitakere Hospital in West Auckland, New Zealand. Part of the rationale for this was the expectation that it would reduce attendances to the four established EDs in the Auckland ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Emergency Service, Hospital - Utilization'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room. 29 Sep 2009
• Pediatric adverse drug events in the outpatient setting: an 11-year national analysis. 26 Sep 2009
• Emergency Department utilisation: a natural experiment. 9 Sep 2009
• What do we do about increasing demand for Emergency Department care? 9 Sep 2009
• Clinical and economic ramifications of switching antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia. 31 Aug 2009
• Outside CT imaging among emergency department transfer patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Patterns of responses to cardiac events over time. 30 Aug 2009
• Building the medical home. 30 Aug 2009
• Benefits of a universal influenza immunization program: more than the reduction in the use of antibiotics. 30 Aug 2009
• Pediatric convulsive status epilepticus in Honduras, Central America. 17 Aug 2009
• Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial. 17 Aug 2009
• Small-group, interactive education and the effect on asthma control by children and their families. 15 Aug 2009
• Using education to improve control of asthma in children. 15 Aug 2009
• Utilization of acute and long-term care in the last year of life: comparison with survivors in a population-based study. 3 Aug 2009
• Risk and reform. 30 Jul 2009
• Frequency and correlates of inappropriate pediatric psychiatric emergency room visits. 30 Jul 2009
• A comparison of National Emergency Department use by homeless versus non-homeless people in the United States. 30 Jul 2009
• A day at the races: does alcohol strength make a difference? 30 Jul 2009
• Emergency department surge: models and practical implications. 30 Jul 2009
• Infant health outcomes associated with voluntary health care model change in a choice-based Medicaid system. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Emergency Service, Hospital'

Definition: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.

Descriptor UI: D004636

Alternative terms: Emergency Service, Hospital; Emergency Hospital Service; Emergency Hospital Services; Hospital Service, Emergency; Hospital Services, Emergency; Service, Emergency Hospital; Services, Emergency Hospital; Hospital Emergency Service; Service, Hospital Emergency; Emergency Services, Hospital; Hospital Emergency Services; Services, Hospital Emergency; Hospital Service Emergency; Emergencies, Hospital Service; Emergency, Hospital Service; Hospital Service Emergencies; Service Emergencies, Hospital; Service Emergency, Hospital; Emergency Outpatient Unit; Emergency Outpatient Units; Outpatient Unit, Emergency; Outpatient Units, Emergency; Unit, Emergency Outpatient; Units, Emergency Outpatient;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.354.422.336; N02.421.297.195; N04.452.442.422.336;

Online Note: use EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL to search HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE 1966-77

History Note: 78; was HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE 1963-77

Technical Notes: DF: EMERGENCY SERV HOSP