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Interventions in overcrowding of emergency departments: an overview of systematic reviews

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To present an overview of systematic reviews on throughput interventions to solve the overcrowding of emergency departments. METHODS Electronic searches for reviews published between 2007 and 2018 were made on PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Health Systems Evidence, CINAHL, SciEL...

Percepções e afetos na prisão: análise de narrativas de presos e agentes penitenciários

Psicol. soc. (Online); 32 (), 2020
Resumo Trata-se de um estudo de caso numa penitenciária do Ceará, Brasil, cujo objetivo foi identificar e analisar percepções ambientais de usuários em ambiente penal, pela expressão de suas experiências no lugar, bem como das simbologias a ele atribuídos. Por meio de entrevistas narrativas reali...

Brazilian Justice response to protect the prison population from Covid-19

Reducing overcrowding in an emergency department: a pilot study

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE Exploring the use of forecasting models and simulation tools to estimate demand and reduce the waiting time of patients in Emergency Departments (EDs). METHODS The analysis was based on data collected in May 2013 in the ED of Recanto das Emas, Federal District, Brasil, which uses a ...

O cuidado à pessoa com comorbidade psiquiátrica em emergência geral: visão dos enfermeiros

Rev. gaúch. enferm; 40 (), 2019
Resumo OBJETIVO Analisar dificuldades encontradas pelos enfermeiros no cuidado à pessoa com comorbidade psiquiátrica em uma emergência geral e suas sugestões para melhoria do cuidado à estas neste serviço. MÉTODO Estudo qualitativo, descritivo e exploratório, realizado com doze enfermeiros em h...

Relación entre apiñamiento dentario y terceros molares

RESUMEN: Introducción: La relación entre terceros molares y el desarrollo o reincidencia de maloclusión y apiñamiento dental tras el tratamiento de ortodoncia, especialmente en el segmento anterior del arco dental, es un tema que ha sido discutido y presentado en la literatura, el cual aún permanec...

Relación entre hacinamiento e infecciones comunitarias de piel y partes blandas
Relationship between crowding and community acquired skin and soft tissues infections

Medicina (B.Aires); 77 (6), 2017
La asociación entre diseminación de infecciones comunitarias, pobreza y hacinamiento es bien conocida. En nuestro hospital observamos casos esporádicos de infecciones post-cesárea por cepas de Staphylococcus aureus meticilino resistente de origen comunitario (SAMRCo). En un estudio prospectivo de fam...

Fenómeno de crowding en central de emergencias: una problemática mundial
Crowding phenomenon in emergency center: a world problem

NEDOCS vs subjective evaluation, ¿Is the health personnel of the emergency department aware of its overcrowding?

Colomb. med; 48 (2), 2017
Abstract Introduction: An emergency department (ED) is considered to be "overcrowded" when the number of patients exceeds its treatment capacity and it does not have the conditions to meet the needs of the next patient to be treated. This study evaluates overcrowding in the emergency department of a hos...

Descripción de las características del fenómeno Crowding en la Central de Emergencia de Adultos, en un hospital universitario de alta complejidad: estudio de cohorte retrospectiva

Rev. méd. Chile; 145 (5), 2017
Background: Crowding in Emergency Departments (ED), results from the imbalance between the simultaneous demand for health care and the ability of the system to respond. The NEDOCS scale (National Emergency Department Crowding Scale) measures the degree of crowding in an ED. Aim: To describe ED Crowding c...