Evaluating the impact of a discharge pharmacy in the emergency department on emergency department revisits and admissions.

Importance: Medication nonadherence leads to worse health outcomes, increased healthcare service utilization, and increased overall healthcare costs.

Objective: To determine whether a discharge pharmacy located in the Emergency Department (ED) reduces ED revisits and hospitalizations.

Design: This is a cohort study where we extracted data from our electronic medical records with adult encounters between 12/2019-10/2021.

Improved antibiotic prescribing using indication-based clinical decision support in the emergency department.

Background: Evaluate an indication-based clinical decision support tool to improve antibiotic prescribing in the emergency department.

Methods: Encounters where an antibiotic was prescribed between January 2015 and October 2017 were analyzed before and after the introduction of a clinical decision support tool to improve clinicians' selection of a guideline-approved antibiotic based on clinical indication. Evaluation was conducted on a pre-defined subset of conditions that included skin and soft tissue infections, respiratory infections, and urinary infections.

Emergency department front-end split-flow experience: 'physician in intake'.

Background: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a critical problem in the delivery of acute unscheduled care. Many causes are external to the ED, but antiquated operational traditions like triage also contribute. A physician intake model has been shown to be beneficial in a single-centre study, but whether this solution is generalisable is not clear.

Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Sinusitis Within a Direct-to-Consumer Virtual Urgent Care.

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Frequency of CD4(+)CD25(hi)FOXP3(+) regulatory T cells has diagnostic and prognostic value as a biomarker for acute graft-versus-host-disease.

The relationship between regulatory T cells (Tregs) and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) in clinical allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) recipients is not well established. We conducted a prospective analysis of peripheral blood Tregs as determined by the frequency of CD4(+)CD25(hi)FOXP3(+) lymphocytes in 215 BMT patients. Autologous BMT patients (N = 90) and allogeneic BMT patients without GVHD (N = 65) had similar Treg frequencies, whereas allogeneic patients with GVHD (N = 60) had Treg frequencies that were 40% less than those without GVHD.