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| Marc AfilaloSummaryAffiliation: McGill University Country: Canada Publications
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Nonurgent emergency department patient characteristics and barriers to primary careJonathan Afilalo
Faculty of Medicine, McGill Univeristy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 11:1302-10. 2004..The design of new interventions, however, will benefit from further research that clarifies the impact of NU patients on the health care system...- Efficacy of tapentadol ER for managing moderate to severe chronic painMarc Afilalo
Emergency Department, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal Canada
Pain Physician 16:27-40. 2013..Tapentadol is a centrally acting analgesic with 2 mechanisms of action, μ-opioid receptor agonism and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition, that is available in an extended-release formulation for the management of chronic pain... 
Evaluation and management of seasonal influenza in the emergency departmentMarc Afilalo
Emergency Department, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Road, Room D 012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1E2
Emerg Med Clin North Am 30:271-305, viii. 2012..Emergency departments need specific infection control measures to curb the spread of influenza in the Emergency Department and hospital during the influenza season...- Impact of a standardized communication system on continuity of care between family physicians and the emergency departmentMarc Afilalo
Emergency Department, Emergency Multidisciplinary Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CJEM 9:79-86. 2007..This paper aims to evaluate the impact of this SCS on continuity of care... 
Impact of an electronic link between the emergency department and family physicians: a randomized controlled trialEddy Lang
Emergency Department, Emergency Multidisciplinary Research Unit, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Que
CMAJ 174:313-8. 2006..We sought to determine the impact of the SCS on measures of resource utilization in the emergency department and family physician offices...- Development of the Canadian Emergency Department Diagnosis ShortlistBernard Unger
Emergency Multidisciplinary Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Rd, Montreal QC, Canada
CJEM 12:311-9. 2010..This study was aimed at developing a standardized Canadian Emergency Department Diagnosis Shortlist (CED-DxS), as a subset of the full International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, with Canadian Enhancement (ICD-10-CA)... - Impact of ambulance transportation on resource use in the emergency departmentAdrian Marinovich
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 11:312-5. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: This preliminary study indicates that patients arriving at the ED by ambulance use significantly more resources than their walk-in counterparts... - Markers of overcrowding in a pediatric emergency departmentAntonia S Stang
Pediatric Emergency Department, Montreal Children s Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 17:151-6. 2010..The objective of this study was to identify markers of overcrowding in pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) according to expert opinion and then to use statistical methods to further explore the underlying construct of overcrowding... - An emergency department-based nurse discharge coordinator for elder patients: does it make a difference?Alex Guttman
Emergency Department, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 11:1318-27. 2004.... - A workshop to improve workflow efficiency in emergency medicineRaghu Venugopal
Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CJEM 10:525-31. 2008..We sought to determine whether an interactive workshop could be designed and favourably perceived by emergency physicians and residents as a means to improve their self-assessed WFE skills... - Delays to reperfusion therapy in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the AMI-QUEBEC StudyThao Huynh
Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CMAJ 175:1527-32. 2006..Through the AMI-QUEBEC Study we sought to describe delays to reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and to identify factors associated with prolonged delays... - Emergency physician recognition of adverse drug-related events in elder patients presenting to an emergency departmentCorinne Michèle Hohl
Emergency Department, Vancouver General Hospital, 885 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Acad Emerg Med 12:197-205. 2005..The authors examined the ability of emergency physicians (EPs) to recognize adverse drug-related events (ADREs) in elder patients presenting to the emergency department (ED)... - The in-hospital interval: a description of EMT time spent in the emergency departmentEli Segal
Emergency Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:378-82. 2006..Our objective was to describe the activity of the EMTs during their time in the ED. Secondary objectives included the association of time of day, age, and triage code with the various time intervals... - Successful implementation of a combined pneumococcal and influenza vaccination program in a Canadian emergency departmentEleena Pearson
Emergency Department, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CJEM 7:371-7. 2005..To determine the proportion of patients vaccinated with pneumococcal (PVAX) and influenza (IVAX) vaccines under an emergency department (ED) vaccination program, that would not otherwise have been vaccinated by other primary care resources... - Intervention to decrease emergency department crowding: does it have an effect on return visits and hospital readmissions?Sylvie Cardin
Emergency Department, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Emerg Med 41:173-85. 2003..The intervention included increased emergency physician coverage, the designation of physician coordinators, and new hospital policies regarding laboratory, consultation, and admission procedures... - Evidence of viremia in 2 cases of severe pandemic influenza A H1N1/09Matthew Oughton
Division of Infectious Disease and Department of Microbiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 70:213-7. 2011..Detection of viremia may be useful as a predictive marker for severe disease. Antiviral agents with low serum levels may be ineffective if administered to patients with influenza viremia... - Evidence-based emergency medicine. Use of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctionEddy S Lang
Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Emerg Med 40:518-20. 2002 - Prospective multicenter study of acute asthma in younger versus older adults presenting to the emergency departmentAleena Banerji
Department of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:48-55. 2006..CONCLUSION: Older asthma patients were less responsive to emergency bronchodilation. This may reflect chronic undertreatment with inhaled corticosteroids... - Finding one's way in translating evidence into practiceEddy Lang
Ann Emerg Med 51:791-2. 2008 - Frequency, determinants and impact of overcrowding in emergency departments in Canada: a national surveyKenneth Bond
Capital Health University of Alberta Evidence Based Practice Center, Edmonton
Healthc Q 10:32-40. 2007..The perspective of ED directors reinforces the need for further examination of effective policies and interventions to reduce ED overcrowding...