Initiatives to reduce overcrowding and access block in Australian emergency departments: a literature review

K Crawford, J Morphet, T Jones, K Innes, D Griffiths… - Collegian, 2014 - Elsevier
Australian emergency departments are … emergency departments. This paper explores the
current literature and highlights the key strategies adopted by different emergency departments

The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments

PC Sprivulis, JA Da Silva, IG Jacobs… - … journal of Australia, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… The Emergency Care, Hospitalisation and Outcome Study (ECHO) Western Australia's
ECHO acknowledges the staff of Perth's emergency departments, the St John Ambulance …

Workloads in Australian emergency departments a descriptive study

J Lyneham, L Cloughessy, V Martin - International emergency nursing, 2008 - Elsevier
… in Australian emergency departments. … emergency departments (Hackenschmidt and
Malone, 2004). The results of this study demonstrate that emergency nurses in most departments

Systematic review of trends in emergency department attendances: an Australian perspective

JA Lowthian, AJ Curtis, PA Cameron… - Emergency Medicine …, 2011 - emj.bmj.com
Emergency departments (EDs) in many developed countries are experiencing increasing
pressure due to rising numbers of patient presentations and emergency admissions. Reported …

[HTML][HTML] At the crossroads of violence and aggression in the emergency department: perspectives of Australian emergency nurses

J Morphet, D Griffiths, V Plummer, K Innes… - Australian health …, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
… Objective Violence is widespread in Australian emergency departments (ED) and most
prevalent at triage. The aim of the present study was to identify the causes and common acts of …

Management of low back pain in Australian emergency departments

GE Ferreira, GC Machado, CA Shaheed… - BMJ Quality & …, 2019 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department
(ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who …

The experience of general nurses in rural Australian emergency departments

T Kidd, A Kenny, T Meehan-Andrews - Nurse Education in Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
… We can work quite comfortably [in the rural environment] but take us down to the [other
larger hospitals] and put us in an emergency department and I will freely admit I would be like a …

Restraint practices in Australasian emergency departments

ME Cannon, ME Cannon, P Sprivulis… - Australian & New …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
… and observation in the emergency department to reduce the … in urban Australasian emergency
departments is estimated … restraint in urban Australasian emergency departments is of a …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of frequent emergency department presenters to an Australian emergency medicine network

D Markham, A Graudins - BMC Emergency Medicine, 2011 - Springer
… We report an analysis of characteristics of frequent emergency department presenters in
an Australasian setting. Frequent Presenters in our hospital network had significant mental …

Survey of alcohol‐related presentations to Australasian emergency departments

D Egerton‐Warburton, A Gosbell… - … Journal of Australia, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… While emergency departments (EDs) anecdotally see a high … At present, it is not mandatory
for Australian or New Zealand … in Australian and New Zealand emergency departments (EDs…