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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4088.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | |||
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| Prehospital care in the form of emergency medical services (EMS) was originally established to provide a quick response to cardiac arrest victims and transport of motor vehicle crash victims. It has since extended its scope to include all emergent calls for disease, disability or injury. The economic burden of EMS has been estimated at $5 billion each year with 25 to 30 million patients being treated and/or transported. Costs associated with hospital emergency department (ED) services exceed $25 billion per year with over 100 million annual visits in the United States. Recent data also show that emergency department visits are on the rise with a 14% increase in the number of ED visits nationwide between 1992 and 1999. The effects of emergent situations extend far beyond immediate or even long-term health costs to include physical, emotional, monetary and societal costs to individuals, institutions and communities. Many of these situations may be preventable and measures can be taken to improve treatment for incidents that do occur. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Identify areas of research common to the disciplines of public health and emergency medicine. Recognize that differences in survival rates, patterns of care, hospital lengths of stay and discharge status may vary between a mandated and non-mandated system. Understand how a rural trauma system affects traumatic brain injury outcomes. | |||
| Implementing a statewide EMS data collection system: Lessons learned from six states Lisa K. Hyde, MPA, Mike Schnyder, NNREMT-P, Lenora Olson, MA | |||
| A public health research agenda in emergency medicine Michael Greenberg, MD, MPH, Jennifer Wiler, MD, Julie Marquez, MD | |||
| Neighborhood income, income distribution, and survival from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in New York City Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, Shannon Blaney, MPH, Monique Kusick, Robert Silverman, MD, Neal Richmond, MD, David Vlahov, PhD | |||
| Could It Happen to Us: Is the Public Health System Ready to Respond in the Aftermath of a Major Earthquake in the United States? Miguel A. Cruz, MPH, David A. Ashford, DVM, MPH, DSc | |||
| County Level Disaster Preparedness and Response for Persons with Mobility Impairments: Results from the University of Kansas Nobody Left Behind Study Glen W. White, PhD, Michael H. Fox, ScD, Catherine Rooney, MA, Jennifer L. Rowland, PhD, MPH, PT | |||
| A comparison of the distribution and outcomes of high risk trauma patients (ISS gte 25) in a mandated and non-mandated trauma system: Florida versus Indiana Robert M. Saywell, PhD, MPH, George H. Rodman, MD, Lawrence Lottenberg, MD, Michael J. Przybylski, PhD, Joseph J. Tepas, MD, Patrick D. Kilgo, MS, Steve Dearwater, MS, Jacqueline M. Hirth | |||
| System effects of a rural trauma system on traumatic brain injuries Hope Tiesman, MSPH, Tracy Young, MS, James Torner, MS, PhD | |||
| Bringing naloxone to New York City: Lessons learned from the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center (LESHRC) Tinka Markham Piper, MPH, CSW, Nancy Worthington, David Rosenthal, Matt Curtis, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH | |||
| Rates of physician counseling on gun safety in Southwestern Ohio Shalini G. Forbis, MD, MPH, Molinda M. Chartrand, MD, Adrienne Stolfi, MSPH, John Pascoe, MD, MPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services | ||
| Endorsed by: | Academic Public Health Caucus; Maternal and Child Health | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA