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Session: Emergency Services and Emergency Department Practices
4232.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Emergency Services and Emergency Department Practices
This session is of interest to emergency medicine practitioners, epidemiologists, and health policy makers and addresses multiple issues ranging from administrative practices in the hospital to interventions conducted in the community.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe injury prevention activities used by firearm departments. 2. Assess the role of health insurance on accuracy of emergency department data. 3. Describe injury types among infants and children.
Moderator(s):Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA
2:30 PM   Pediatric Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2003-05
Kimberly R. Middleton, BSN, MPH, Linda McCaig, MPH
2:45 PM   National survey of injury prevention activities in U.S. fire departments
Eileen McDonald, MS, Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM, Jennifer Piver-Renna, Michael Griswold, PhD, Angela D. Mickalide, PhD, CHES, Meri-K Appy
3:00 PM   How representative are emergency department data for injuries: Influence of health insurance status
Gordon S. Smith, MD, MPH, David A. Lombardi, PhD, Julie Flahive, MS
3:15 PM   Assessing and identifying Shaken Baby Syndrome for emergency response personnel
Nena Ray, LPN
3:30 PM   An outcome based approach to enhancing EMS systems transport safety
Nadine Levick, MD, MPH, John Russell, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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