Treatments, Care Pathway and Organizational Issues in Emergency Medicine
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 2160
Special Issue Editor
2. Laboratory “Research on Healthcare Performance” (RESHAPE), INSERM U1290, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69008 Lyon, France
Interests: pain management; opioid; analgesics; health volunteers; translational research; pain model; drug misuse; Sepsis; blood management; health policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is calling for papers for a Special Issue on the “Treatments, Care pathway and Organizational issues in Emergency Medicine”.
Emergency Medicine is a large research area, but organizational issues are not enough promoted in literature. In our modern practice, drug efficacy can’t be considered in an isolated manner. Emergency Care is a piece of a care system, a moment in a global care path. Covid-19 crisis had recently highlighted the relevance of organizational concerns in Emergency medicine. Minor trauma and geriatric pathways are known to need new diagnostic and therapeutic tools since several years, and new care-providers categories have emerged in emergency medicine in line with this objective (advanced practice nurses). Emergency pathways are growing in order to improve care level and care efficiency, beyond the scope of “fast tracks”, and visibility of these changes must be enhanced.
Moreover, Physicians and nurses are now involved in a complex decision-making process, for a better balance between standardization of treatment and personalized patient-physician care contracts. Drug management have now to target personalized medicine whereas overcrowding phenomenon, and multiplicity of health-care providers still remain heavy constraints in Emergency care.
Adequate use of technological innovations is one of the new cornerstones, but medico-economic considerations must become systematic and evolve. Drug circuits must allow easy access but have also to deal with larger environmental concerns to fit new society priorities as ecology.
Quality of care in Emergency Medicine will be linked to these new goals in the next decade.
In this special issue we aim to highlight original perspectives regarding treatment, care pathway and organizational issues regarding this new context.
Any Emergency location will be considered. We expected to encourage submissions from contributors in a large population of health providers. All thematic will be considered, but with a particular interest for: Pain management, Blood management, Prevention of Drug Misuse, and Sepsis management. Patient-centered researches will be favored, but evaluation of professional practices and Health-professional management will be also considered, as long as they are focused on care pathway, decision-making, barriers to innovation, or on treatment compliance.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Virginie Ève Lvovschi
Guest Editor
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