BRIEF REPORT: Factors affecting outpatient follow-up compliance of emergency department patientsDemetrios N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:938-42. 2005
..Emergency department (ED) patients often fail to follow-up with referrals to outpatient clinics and physicians...
A 5-year time study analysis of emergency department patient care efficiencyD N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA
Ann Emerg Med 34:326-35. 1999
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Derivation of a triage algorithm for chest radiography of community-acquired pneumonia patients in the emergency departmentDemetrios N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:40-4. 2008
..Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) accounts for 1.5 million emergency department (ED) patient visits in the United States each year...
- Metoclopramide versus hydromorphone for the emergency department treatment of migraine headache
Justin D Griffith
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
J Pain 9:88-94. 2008
..A double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial comparing standard dosages of hydromorphone versus metoclopramide will be needed to definitively determine which medication is more effective...
- Responding to a small-scale bioterrorist anthrax attack: cost-effectiveness analysis comparing preattack vaccination with postattack antibiotic treatment and vaccination
Brian Schmitt
Medicine and Neurology Service Line 111, Hines VA Medical Center, Hines, IL 60141, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:655-62. 2007
..In 2001, a small-scale bioterrorism-related anthrax attack was perpetrated via the US mail. The optimal future response may require strategies different from those required in a large-scale attack...
- The relationship between socioeconomic factors and gang violence in the City of Los Angeles
D N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Trauma 46:334-9. 1999
..To investigate the relationship between community-level socioeconomic factors and the incidence of gang-related homicide in the city of Los Angeles...
- Discriminating inhalational anthrax from community-acquired pneumonia using chest radiograph findings and a clinical algorithm
Demetrios N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 259 Erie St, Suite 100, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Chest 131:489-96. 2007
..Limiting the effects of a large-scale bioterrorist anthrax attack will require rapid and accurate detection of the earliest victims. We undertook this study to improve physicians' ability to rapidly detect inhalational anthrax victims...
- Police deaths in New York and London during the twentieth century
D N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Inj Prev 12:219-24. 2006
..To assess the relation between overall societal violence and violence directed toward police officers in these metropolitan areas...
- Clinical predictors of bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax
Demetrios N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Lancet 364:449-52. 2004
..8-78.1) compared with community-acquired pneumonia, and 95.6% specific (90.0-98.5) compared with influenza-like illness. Our findings represent preliminary efforts toward identifying clinical predictors of inhalational anthrax...
- Errors in emergency medicine: research strategies
D N Kyriacou
Division of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Acad Emerg Med 7:1201-3. 2000
..Other medical and nonmedical fields have already made great advancements in studying and reducing human error. Many of these advancements could readily be adapted to study emergency medical errors...
- Excessive use of force by police: a survey of academic emergency physicians
H R Hutson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Med J 26:20-2. 2009
..To determine the clinical experience, management and training of emergency physicians in the suspected use of excessive force by law enforcement officers...
- Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3
Paula Tanabe
Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:59-65. 2004
..3) of the ESI has not been evaluated. The study hypothesis was that scores on the ESI v.3 show good interrater reliability and predict hospital admission, admission site, and death...
- Anthrax: from antiquity and obscurity to a front-runner in bioterrorism
Demetrios N Kyriacou
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 259 East Erie Street, Suite 100, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Infect Dis Clin North Am 20:227-51, viii. 2006
- A review of police pursuit fatalities in the United States from 1982-2004
H Range Hutson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:278-83. 2007
..High-speed police pursuits are common in the United States (US). Most states do not gather statistics on police pursuits, pursuit crashes, injuries or fatalities for annual review...
