Publications by authors named "Kendall McKenzie"
Purpose: To identify and characterize studies evaluating clinician compliance with infection-related guidelines, and to explore trends in guideline design and implementation strategies.
Data Sources: PubMed database, April 2017. Followed the PRISMA Statement for systematic reviews.
Objective measures of workload in healthcare: a narrative review.
Int J Health Care Qual Assur
December 2019
Purpose: Workload is a critical concept in the evaluation of performance and quality in healthcare systems, but its definition relies on the perspective (e.g. individual clinician-level vs unit-level workload) and type of available metrics (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImproving Disaster Response Efforts Through the Development of a Disaster Health Care Response System.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
October 2017
We review the development of a disaster health care response system in Mississippi aimed at improving disaster response efforts. Large-scale disasters generate many injured and ill patients, which causes a significant utilization of emergency health care services and often requires external support to meet clinical needs. Disaster health care services require a solid infrastructure of coordination and collaboration to be effective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The oculocardiac reflex is a decrease in heart rate caused by ocular compression or traction upon the extraocular musculature. Multiple instances of this phenomenon have been described in anesthesia, trauma, craniofacial, and ophthalmology literature, but there is a sparsity of documentation in the emergency medicine literature.
Case Report: We describe the observation and management of the oculocardiac reflex in a 26-year-old man with retrobulbar hematoma and intraocular trauma caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Objectives: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding remains a growing concern despite continued efforts by hospitals to improve efficiency while also maintaining quality of care and medical education. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the total number of trainees rotating in the ED affects length of stay (LOS).
Methods: This was a single-center study conducted at an urban university teaching hospital and level I trauma center that averages 65,000 adult ED visits per year.
Background: Skin dimpling, also known as skin puckering, is a rare occurrence after closed proximal humerus fractures. This finding is suggestive of incarceration of the skin at the fracture site and may lead to necrosis and conversion to an open fracture.
Objectives: Our goal is to describe our experience with skin dimpling after a proximal humerus fracture to increase awareness and recognition of this clinical presentation in the Emergency Department (ED).
Providing rural emergency medical care is often difficult because of limited resources and a scarcity of medical providers, including physicians trained in emergency medicine. Telemedicine offers promise for improving the quality of care in rural areas, but previous models were not well designed to provide affordable care to unstable or potentially unstable patients. The TelEmergency program was developed to overcome these limitations by providing quality, affordable medical care to patients in rural emergency departments (EDs) using specially trained nurse practitioners linked in real time by telemedicine with their collaborating physicians at the University of Mississippi Medical Center Adult Emergency Department.
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