Decision-Making in the Emergency Department
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emergency medicine; emergency department scoring systems; risk stratification; critical care; clinical toxicology; health economics and outcomes research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Decision-making in the emergency department (ED) is fraught with challenges due to many factors: rapidly evolving patient conditions, life-threatening illnesses masquerading as minor ailments, and the constant balancing act of triaging to maximize utilization of ED time and space.
The aim of this Special Issue is to update our knowledge and highlight state-of-the-art research in improving the decision-making process in EDs. We welcome any paper regarding topics such as (but not limited to) early diagnosis, rapid response, risk stratification, and decision making in the ED.
Potential topics of this Special Issue include:
- Decision-making algorithms in the emergency department;
- Risk stratification and prognostic decision-making tools;
- Early diagnosis or point-of-care diagnostics in the emergency department.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Thank you.
Dr. Chen-June Seak
Dr. Zhong Ning Leonard Goh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emergency department
- decision-making algorithms
- risk stratification
- prognostic decision-making
- early diagnosis
- point-of-care diagnostics
