Outcomes of ED chest pain visits: the prognostic value of negative but measurable high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) levels.

Background: Chest pain is a common condition in the emergency department (ED). High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays are crucial for diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, but the implications of "negative but measurable" hs-cTn levels are not well understood. This study assesses the outcomes of patients with acute chest pain discharged from the ED based on their hs-cTn levels.

Diagnostic delays among COVID-19 patients with a second concurrent diagnosis.

Background: Little is known about the effect of a new pandemic on diagnostic errors.

Objective: We aimed to identify delayed second diagnoses among patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with COVID-19.

Designs: An observational cohort Study.

Emergency department non-contrast computed tomography for suspicion of obstructive urolithiasis: Yield and consequences.

Introduction: We aimed to analyze patterns of referral, yield, and clinical implications of non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) in the acute evaluation of flank pain suspected as obstructive urolithiasis (OU) in a high-volume emergency department (ED).

Methods: The study comprised 506 consecutive NCCTs performed in the ED over four months. Detection rates of OU, incidental, and alternative findings were calculated.

Five years of fecal microbiota transplantation - an update of the Israeli experience.

Aim: To evaluate and describe the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for infection (CDI) in a national Israeli cohort.

Methods: All patients who received FMT for recurrent (recurrence within 8 wk of the previous treatment) or refractory CDI from 2013 through 2017 in all the five medical centers in Israel currently performing FMT were included. Stool donors were screened according to the Israeli Ministry of Health guidelines.

Reduced hospitalization rates are not associated with increased mortality or readmission rates in an emergency department in Israel.

Background And Aim: In 2011 the Israeli Ministry of Health (MOH) instructed hospitals to limit occupancy in the internal medicine wards to 120%, which was followed by a nationwide reduction in hospitalization rates. We examined how readmission and mortality rates changed in the five years following the changes in occupancy rates and hospitalization rates.

Methods: All visits to the Tel Aviv Medical Center internal Emergency Medicine Department (ED) in 2010, 2014 and 2016 were captured, with exclusion of visits by patients below 16 of age and patients with incomplete or faulty data.