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Setting Up a Stroke Team Algorithm and Conducting Simulation-based Training in the Emergency Department - A Practical Guide
Published on: January 15, 2017
Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department
Kirk A Stiffler1, Lowell W Gerson
1Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Akron City Hospital, Akron, OH 44309-2090, USA. stifflek@summa-health.org
Abstract:
This article provides an overview of health promotion and disease and injury prevention concepts. It provides an emergency medicine perspective and reviews approaches that can be used in the emergency department. It discusses examples of innovative emergency medicine-based preventive activities including prevention in the prehospital setting. This article ends with a discussion of the importance of a system approach to prevention and suggests a role for a preventionist as a new member of the emergency medicine team.
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