Emergency Department Expansion Versus Patient Flow Improvement: Impact on Patient Experience of Care.

Background: Most strategies used to help improve the patient experience of care and ease emergency department (ED) crowding and diversion require additional space and personnel resources, major process improvement interventions, or a combination of both.

Objectives: To compare the impact of ED expansion vs. patient flow improvement and the establishment of a rapid assessment unit (RAU) on the patient experience of care in a medium-size safety net ED.

Brimonidine tartrate poisoning in children: frequency, trends, and use of naloxone as an antidote.

Background: Brimonidine tartrate, a centrally acting selective alpha-2 adrenergic agonist with a toxicity that is often compared with that of clonidine, is used as eye drops to lower intraocular pressure in glaucoma. We investigated characteristics of childhood exposures to brimonidine-containing products.

Methods: All brimonidine exposures in children 0 to 5 years of age between 1997 and 2005 were retrieved from the American Association of Poison Control Centers' Toxic Exposure Surveillance System database and the US Food and Drug Administration's Medwatch Adverse Events Reporting System.