Esther H Chen

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Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for evaluating patients with abdominal pain and diarrhea
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 26:450-3. 2008
  2. ncbi Resident exposure to critical patients in a pediatric emergency department
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Pediatr Emerg Care 23:774-8. 2007
  3. ncbi Emergency physicians do not use more resources to evaluate obese patients with acute abdominal pain
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 25:925-30. 2007
  4. ncbi Do children require ECG evaluation and inpatient telemetry after household electrical exposures?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 49:64-7. 2007
  5. ncbi The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected stroke
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 13:349-52. 2006
  6. ncbi Defining the outcomes of risk stratification studies of ED patients with chest pain: the marginal value of adding revascularization to the composite end point
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 23:848-51. 2005
  7. ncbi Is it necessary to admit low-risk patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome to inpatient telemetry beds?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 46:440-4. 2005
  8. ncbi Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 15:414-8. 2008
  9. ncbi The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patients
    Angela M Mills
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 16:603-8. 2009
  10. ncbi The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain
    Jesse M Pines
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 27:552-7. 2009

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for evaluating patients with abdominal pain and diarrhea
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 26:450-3. 2008
    ..The objective of the study was to develop a simple prediction rule to reliably identify abdominal pain patients with diarrhea who may require surgical intervention...
  2. ncbi Resident exposure to critical patients in a pediatric emergency department
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Pediatr Emerg Care 23:774-8. 2007
    ..We hypothesize that nonpediatric and pediatric residents are exposed to a very low percentage of critically ill patients in a high-volume children's hospital emergency department (ED)...
  3. ncbi Emergency physicians do not use more resources to evaluate obese patients with acute abdominal pain
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 25:925-30. 2007
    ..We hypothesized that emergency physicians would use more resources to evaluate acute abdominal pain in obese patients as compared with that in nonobese patients...
  4. ncbi Do children require ECG evaluation and inpatient telemetry after household electrical exposures?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 49:64-7. 2007
  5. ncbi The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected stroke
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 13:349-52. 2006
    ..Emergency department (ED) overcrowding threatens quality of care by delaying the time to diagnosis and treatment of patients with time-sensitive diseases, such as acute stroke...
  6. ncbi Defining the outcomes of risk stratification studies of ED patients with chest pain: the marginal value of adding revascularization to the composite end point
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 23:848-51. 2005
    ..We assessed whether adding revascularization to a strictly defined composite end point of death, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and unstable angina (UA) impacts the likelihood of patients attaining the composite end point...
  7. ncbi Is it necessary to admit low-risk patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome to inpatient telemetry beds?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 46:440-4. 2005
  8. ncbi Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 15:414-8. 2008
    ..The authors assessed whether a gender disparity exists in the administration of analgesia for acute abdominal pain...
  9. ncbi The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patients
    Angela M Mills
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 16:603-8. 2009
    ..The authors assessed the effect of emergency department (ED) crowding on the nontreatment and delay in treatment for analgesia in patients who had acute abdominal pain...
  10. ncbi The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain
    Jesse M Pines
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 27:552-7. 2009
    ..We sought to determine the impact of 3 validated scales of physician risk behavior on imaging use in emergency department (ED) patients with abdominal pain...
  11. ncbi The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain
    Angela M Mills
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
    Postgrad Med 122:75-81. 2010
    ..We assessed the relationship between emergency department (ED) crowding and delays in care in patients presenting with abdominal pain who receive abdominal computed tomography (CT)...
  12. ncbi Emergency medicine resident rotation in pediatric emergency medicine: what kind of experience are we providing?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 11:771-3. 2004
    ..Quantitative data of skills utilized during rotations can be used by residency programs to identify and correct deficiencies in their residents' PEM education...
  13. ncbi When do patients need admission to a telemetry bed?
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    J Emerg Med 33:53-60. 2007
    ..Finally, telemetry is not indicated for patients requiring minor blood transfusion, low risk chest pain patients with normal electrocardiography, and stable patients receiving anticoagulation for pulmonary embolism...
  14. ncbi Inter-rater reliability of historical data collected by non-medical research assistants and physicians in patients with acute abdominal pain
    Angela M Mills
    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine
    West J Emerg Med 10:30-6. 2009
    ..We hypothesized that non-medical research assistants (RAs) could obtain historical information from patients with acute abdominal pain as accurately as physicians...
  15. ncbi Abdominal pain: a survey of clinically important outcomes for future research
    Angela M Mills
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
    CJEM 12:485-90. 2010
    ..We aimed to use the consensus opinion of a group of expert emergency physicians to derive a set of emergency diagnoses for acute abdominal pain that might be used as clinically significant outcomes for future research...
  16. ncbi Patient perceptions of computed tomographic imaging and their understanding of radiation risk and exposure
    Brigitte M Baumann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ RWJMS, Camden, NJ 08103, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 58:1-7.e2. 2011
    ..We describe patient perceptions of computed tomography (CT) and their understanding of radiation exposure and risk...
  17. ncbi Is screening radiography necessary to detect retained foreign bodies in adequately explored superficial glass-caused wounds?
    Lauren N Weinberger
    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 51:666-7. 2008
  18. ncbi Are blood cultures necessary in adults with cellulitis?
    Angela M Mills
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 45:548-9. 2005
  19. ncbi Abdominal pain in special populations
    Esther H Chen
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    Emerg Med Clin North Am 29:449-58, x. 2011
    ..The unique characteristics of abdominal pain in these two populations and, more specifically, which diseases to consider and how to use appropriate testing to detect life-threatening conditions, are discussed...
  20. ncbi Diagnosis of a facial artery pseudoaneurysm using emergency bedside ultrasound
    Katherine Y Jenq
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
    J Emerg Med 38:642-4. 2010
    ..We report a case of a facial artery pseudoaneurysm initially mistaken for an abscess. With bedside ultrasound performed in the Emergency Department (ED) by the treating physician, the mass was identified as a pseudoaneurysm...