emergency departments

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital found that an estimated 5.25 million football-related injuries among children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years of age were treated in U.S. emergency departments between 1990 and 2007.

The annual number of football-related injuries increased 27 percent during the 18-year study period, jumping from 274,094 in 1990 to 346,772 in 2007.

Blunt efforts by policymakers and insurers to limit emergency care merely by limiting payments need to be reconsidered.

They discount the value of emergency departments not only to patients, but also to society

(MedPage Today) -- Emergency departments in areas blasted by this winter's record snowfalls say the storms themselves have offered something of a respite from what has otherwise been a steady stream of heart attacks and injuries related to the freakish weather.

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined running-related injuries among children and adolescents 6 to 18 years old and found that an estimated 225,344 cases were treated in US emergency departments from 1994 through 2007, for an average of more than 16,000 each year.

During the 14-year study period, the annual number of running-related injuries increased 34 percent.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Elderly women are at high risk for inappropriate urinary catheter utilization in emergency departments, according to a new study in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

(MedPage Today) -- The vast majority of U.S. emergency departments offer some preventive healthcare services, although the types of services and department directors' preferences vary widely, according to a survey of almost 300 emergency departments.

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined basketball-related injuries treated in emergency departments among children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19 from 1997 to 2007.

According to the study, more than 4 million basketball-related injuries were treated in emergency departments during the 11-year study.

A patient waiting in a typical emergency department would have time to watch more than four one-hour long episodes of the iconic television show "ER," according to a survey by a national hospital consulting firm.

As temperatures creep into the triple-digits in Northeastern states, emergency departments are anecdotally reporting an uptick in heat-related illness (MedPage Today) -- but nothing serious or catastrophic, physicians say.

Twenty-somethings rely on emergency departments (EDs) for care far more than do other age groups, researchers have found.