Emergency department crowding and mortality in 14 Swedish emergency departments, a cohort study leveraging the Swedish Emergency Registry (SVAR).

Objectives: There is evidence that emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with increased mortality, however large multicenter studies of high quality are scarce. In a prior study, we introduced a proxy-measure for crowding that was associated with increased mortality. The national registry SVAR enables us to study the association in a more heterogenous group of EDs with more recent data.

Multimarker risk assessment including osteoprotegerin and CXCL16 in acute coronary syndromes.

Objective: CXCL16 and osteoprotegerin (OPG) both predict mortality in acute coronary syndromes. We hypothesized that a combination of CXCL16 and OPG concentrations would add prognostic information to the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) score in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndromes.

Methods And Results: We assessed the associations between circulating OPG and soluble CXCL16 levels, obtained within 24 hours of admission (day 1) and after 3 months, and mortality, heart failure and reinfarction in 1322 patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes.

Patients' pathway to emergency care: is the emergency department their first choice of care?

Objectives: To investigate whether patients came directly to the emergency department (ED) or whether they had taken any other actions or activities within the healthcare system before attending the ED. An additional aim was to increase our understanding of the potential determinants between patients' ED-seeking behaviour and patient-related data.

Methods: This prospective descriptive study was carried out at the ED at a level one trauma centre at a university hospital in Sweden.

Patient throughput times and inflow patterns in Swedish emergency departments. A basis for ANSWER, A National SWedish Emergency Registry.

Objective: Quality improvement initiatives in emergency medicine (EM) often suffer from a lack of benchmarking data on the quality of care. The objectives of this study were twofold: 1. To assess the feasibility of collecting benchmarking data from different Swedish emergency departments (EDs) and 2.